Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.

Beauty is a frail good.

Cunning leads to knavery. It is but a step from one to the other, and that very slippery. Only lying makes the difference; add that to cunning, and it is knavery.

I see and approve better things, but follow worse.

The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool.

A pleasing face is no small advantage.

Whether they yield or refuse, it delights women to have been asked.