Virtue and vice, evil and good, are siblings, or next-door neighbors, Easy to make mistakes, hard to tell them apart.

I hate a woman who offers herself because she ought to do so, and cold and dry thinks of her sewing when making love.

When you have set yourself a task finish it.

In an easy cause any man may be eloquent.

As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.

Devouring Time and envious Age, all things yield to you; and with lingering death you destroy, step by step, with venomed tooth whatever you attack.

Nothing retains its form; new shapes from old. Nature, the great inventor, ceaselessly contrives. In all creation, be assured, there is no death - no death, but only change and innovation; what we men call birth is but a different new beginning; death is but to cease to be the same. Perhaps this may have moved to that, and that to this, yet still the sum of things remains the same.