Mercy often inflicts death.

The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires.

Solitude and company may be allowed to take their turns: the one creates in us the love of mankind, the other that of ourselves; solitude relieves us when we are sick of company, and conversation when we are weary of being alone, so that the one cures the other. There is no man so miserable as he that is at a loss how to use his time

Fire proves gold, adversity proves men.

Full of men, vacant of friends.

There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit

Leave in concealment what has long been concealed.