 Self-defence is Nature's eldest law. |
| Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide. |
| The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one. |
| Words are but pictures of our thoughts. |
| Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul. |
| They that possess the prince possess the laws. |
| There is a pleasure in being mad which none but madmen know. |
| Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres. |
| Fool that I was, upon my eagle's wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me. |
| Genius must be born, and never can be taught. |
| Seek not to know what must not be reveal, for joy only flows where fate is most concealed. A busy person would find their sorrows much more; if future fortunes were known before! |
| We first make our habits, and then our habits make us. |
| Successful crimes alone are justified. |
| When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit. |
| What passions cannot music raise or quell? |
| You see through love, and that deludes your sight, As what is straight seems crooked through the water. |
| Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be. |
| Honor is but an empty bubble. |
| But love's a malady without a cure. |
| Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where. |
