When innocence trembles, it condemns the judge.
Through indecision opportunity is often lost.
Life is short, but its ills make it seem long.
When you are in love you are not wise; or, when you are wise you are not in love.
A god could hardly love and be wise.
Love, like a tear, rises in the eye and falls upon the breast.
Lovers know what they want, but not what they need.
Man’s life is short; and therefore an honorable death is his immortality.
When the bad imitate the good, there is no knowing what mischief is intended.
When two do the same thing, it is not the same thing after all.
We simply rob ourselves when we make presents to the dead.
The future struggles that it may not become the past.
A frog would leap from a throne of gold into a puddle.
When Gold argues the cause, eloquence is impotant.
There is no fruit which is not bitter before it is ripe.
Great hatred can be concealed in the countenance, and much in a kiss.
It is a bitter dose to be taught obedience after you have learned to rule.
Humility neither falls far, nor heavily.
Pardon one offence, and you encourage the commission of many.
Whom Fortune wishes to destroy she first makes mad.