How frightened hypocrisy hastens to defend itself.
Thus, during those nineteen years of torture and slavery, did this soul rise and fall at the same time. Light entered on the one side, and darkness on the other.
Success is a very hideous thing. Its false resemblance to merit deceives men.
What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.
The learned man knows that he is ignorant.
The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.