Benefits received are a delight to us as long as we think we can requite them; when that possibility is far exceeded, they are repaid with hatred instead of gratitude.

Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.

Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.

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.

Then there is the usual scene when lovers are excited with each other, quarrels, entreaties, reproaches, and then fondling reconcilement.

Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.

The worst crimes were dared by a few, willed by more and tolerated by all.