The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.
No one can long hide behind a mask; the pretense soon lapses into the true character.
Pleasure dies at the very moment when it charms us most.
If you judge, investigate.
Do you desire not to be angry? Be not inquisitive. He who inquires what is said of him only works out his own misery.
As fate is inexorable, and not to be moved either with tears or reproaches, an excess of sorrow is as foolish as profuse laughter; while, on the other hand, not to mourn at all is insensibility.