Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.
Be virtuous and you will be vicious.
My main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms, and to keep other people's books out of mine.
There is no true gracefulness which is not epitomized goodness.
A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.
If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.