"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."

"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."

"You can learn from anyone even your enemy."

"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."

"Art lies by its own artifice."

"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."

"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."

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

"Beauty is a fragile gift."

"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."

"Often they benefit who suffer wrong."

"It is annoying to be honest to no purpose."

"The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool."

"What makes men indifferent to their wives is that they can see them when they please."

"What is without periods of rest will not endure."

"At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time."

"There is a god within us."

"Fortune and love favor the brave."

"Time is the devourer of all things."

"The gods behold all righteous actions."

"Tears at times have the weight of speech."

"A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow."