No one can long hide behind a mask; the pretense soon lapses into the true character.

Lack of desire is the greatest riches.

Fortune's not content with knocking a man down; she sends him spinning head over heels, crash upon crash.

We are more wicked together than separately. If you are forced to be in a crowd, then most of all you should withdraw into yourself.

Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.

We pardon familiar vices.

Cling tooth and nail to the following rule: Not to give in to adversity, never to trust prosperity, and always to take full note of fortune's habit of behaving just as she pleases, treating her as if she were actually going to do everything it is in her power to do. Whatever you have been expecting for some time comes as less of a shock.