Shame is a fitter and generally a more effectual punishment for a child than beating.
We are all very ready to believe what we like.
Would Alexander, madman as he was, have been so much a madman, had it not been for Homer?
People hardly ever do anything in anger, of which they do not repent.
Beauty is an accidental and transient good.
What pleasure can those over-happy persons know, who, from their affluence and luxury, always eat before they are hungry and drink before they are thirsty?