Virtue is nothing else than right reason
To make another person hold his tongue, be you first silent.
No one can keep a mask on long.
Nothing deters a good man from doing what is honourable.
It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
Fortune's not content with knocking a man down; she sends him spinning head over heels, crash upon crash.