Time, motion and wine cause sleep.
He who says o'er much I love not is in love.
Alas! how difficult it is not to betray one's guilt by one's looks.
A broken fortune is like a falling column; the lower it sinks, the greater weight it has to sustain.
To wish is of little account; to succeed you must earnestly desire; and this desire must shorten thy sleep.
Fortune resists half-hearted prayers.