Majesty and love do not consort well together, nor do they dwell in the same place.

Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.

Censure acquits the raven, but pursues the dove.

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

It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.

When it passes towards the east, the sun begins to have less effect upon it, and a thin line on the edge of its bright side emits its splendour towards the earth.

Love is a thing that is full of cares and fears.

You learn to know a pilot in a storm.

The happy man is not he who seems thus to others, but who seems thus to himself.

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

A fault is fostered by concealment.

The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave.

He that does good to another does good also to himself.

Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.

We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.

If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.

Hateful is the power, and pitiable is the life, of those who wish to be feared rather than loved.

Care should be taken that all buildings are well lighted: in those of the country this point is easily accomplished, because the wall of a neighbour is not likely to interfere with the light.

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

A gift in season is a double favor to the needy.

What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.

No one is more miserable than the person who wills everything and can do nothing.

A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts.

It is easy at any moment to surrender a large fortune; to build one up is a difficult and an arduous task.

Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.

Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers.

Extreme law is often extreme injustice.

Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.

The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.

The old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom.