The making presents to a lady one addresses is like throwing armor into an enemy's camp, with a resolution to recover it.

What leads to unhappiness is making pleasure the chief aim.

A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.

The making presents to a lady one addresses is like throwing armor into an enemy's camp, with a resolution to recover it.

Learning, like money, may be of so base a coin as to be utterly void of use.

When misfortunes happen to such as dissent from us in matters of religion, we call them judgments; when to those of our own sect, we call them trials; when to persons neither way distinguished, we are content to attribute them to the settled course of things.

Theirs is the present who can praise the past.