Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
Secure against the designs of men, secure against the malignity of the Gods, they have accomplished a thing of infinite difficulty; that to them nothing remains even to be wished.
A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.
Adversity deprives us of our judgment.
People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.
Whatever is unknown is magnified.