We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.
It is from books that wise men derive consolation in the troubles of life.
As we have explained, in first love the soul is taken long before the body; later the body is taken long before the soul; sometimes the soul is not taken at all.
Morality is truth in full bloom.
Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
For prying into any human affairs, non are equal to those whom it does not concern.