However wretched a fellow-mortal may be, he is still a member of our common species.

How much longer are you going to be a pupil? From now on do some teaching as well.

The entire world would perish, if pity were not to limit anger.

Life is divided into three periods: that which has been, that which is, that which will be. Of these the present is short, the future is doubtful, the past is certain.

Unfamiliarity lends weight to misfortune, and there was never a man whose grief was not heightened by surprise.

Crime oft recoils upon the author's head.

True love can fear no one.