Successful crimes alone are justified.
War is the trade of Kings.
Forgiveness to the injured does belong but they ne'er pardon who have done wrong.
He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.
Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.
Beware the fury of a patient man.
Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
Love is love's reward.
For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.
Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
But love's a malady without a cure.
Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.