An example is often a deceptive mirror, and the order of destiny, so troubling to our thoughts, is not always found written in things past
He who is hated by all can not expect to live long.
Let us attend to the present, and as to the future we shall know how to manage when the occasion arrives.
I would tell you I love you, Sir, if I knew what it was to love.
Patience and time conquer all things.
Ambition displeases when it has been sated ... having reached the peak, it aspires to descend.