Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.

Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.

In an easy cause any man may be eloquent.

That fair face will as years roll on lose its beauty, and old age will bring its wrinkles to the brow.

Sleep, thou repose of all things; sleep, thou gentlest of the deities; thou peace of the mind, from which care flies; who doest soothe the hearts of men wearied with the toils of the day, and refittest them for labor.

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.

There is a certain kind of pleasure in weeping.