"Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason? Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason."

"Most safely shall you tread the middle path."

"He who can believe himself well, will be well."

"Everyone's a millionaire where promises are concerned."

"He who would not be idle, let him fall in love."

"Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish."

"Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it."

"Venus favors the bold."

"Habits change into character."

"The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean."

"People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude."

"Love and dignity cannot share the same abode."

"All things can corrupt when minds are prone to evil."

"Happy the man who can count his sufferings."

"Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good."

"The penalty may be removed, the crime is eternal."

"Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them."

"He loved a lifeless thing and he was utterly and hopelessly wretched."

"You can learn from anyone even your enemy."

"Fas est ab hoste doceri.One should learn even from one's enemies."

"What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless."

"Love is a credulous thing."

"The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses."

"The vulgar crowd values friends according to their usefulness."

"Few love what they may have."

"Art lies by its own artifice."

"It is some relief to weep grief is satisfied and carried off by tears."

"Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel."

"Time, the devourer of all things."

"Envy aims very high."

"Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers."

"Barbarus hic ego sum, quia non intelligor illis.(In this place I am a barbarian, because men do not understand me.)"

"If thou wouldst marry wisely marry thine equal."

"Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish."

"Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward."

"Cunning leads to knavery. It is but a step from one to the other, and that very slippery. Only lying makes the difference; add that to cunning, and it is knavery."

"And now the measure of my song is done: The work has reached its end; the book is mine, None shall unwrite these words: nor angry Jove, Nor war, nor fire, nor flood, Nor venomous time that eats our lives away. Then let that morning come, as come it will, When this disguise I carry shall be no more, And all the treacherous years of life undone, And yet my name shall rise to heavenly music, The deathless music of the circling stars. As long as Rome is the Eternal City These lines shall echo from the lips of men, As long as poetry speaks truth on earth, That immortality is mine to wear."

"It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe there are."

"Give me the waters of Lethe that numb the heart, if they exist, I will still not have the power to forget you."

"Bear patiently with a rival."

"Beauty is a fragile gift."

"Brass shines with constant usage, a beautiful dress needs wearing,Leave a house empty, it rots."

"The crop always seems better in our neighbor's field and our neighbor's cow gives more milk."

"My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope."

"Alas! how difficult it is not to betray one's guilt by one's looks."

"Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay."

"Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer."

"First appearance deceives many."

"Time is generally the best doctor."

"It is the poor man who'll ever count his flock."