He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.
Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.