Every lover is a soldier.

Nothing in the entire universe ever perishes, believe me, but things vary, and adopt a new form. The phrase being born is used for beginning to be something different from what one was before, while dying means ceasing to be the same. Though this thing may pass into that, and that into this, yet the sums of things remains unchanged.

It is but a small merit to observe silence, but it is a grave fault to speak of matters on which we should be silent.

Where crime is taught from early years, it becomes a part of nature.

Ere land and sea and the all-covering sky Were made, in the whole world the countenance Of nature was the same, all one, well named Chaos, a raw and undivided mass, Naught but a lifeless bulk, with warring seeds Of ill-joined elements compressed together.

To dismiss a guest is a more ungracious act than not to admit him at all.

If you give up your quiet life, the bow of Cupid will lose its power.