Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish.
If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.
He who would not be idle, let him fall in love.
To feel our ills is one thing, but to cure them is another.
What makes men indifferent to their wives is that they can see them when they please.
Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers.
Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel.
Little things please little minds.
People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.
Majesty and love do not consort well together, nor do they dwell in the same place.
Make the workmanship surpass the materials.
The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool.
Everyone's a millionaire where promises are concerned.
Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength.
Neglect of appearance becomes men.
No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.
Bear patiently with a rival.
The penalty may be removed, the crime is eternal.
Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish.
Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.