Repentance is but want of power to sin.
— John Dryden
War is the trade of Kings.
Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.
Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.
There is a pleasure in being mad which none but madmen know.
Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.
Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, but genius must be born; and never can be taught.
He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence.
For they conquer who believe they can.
Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.
And plenty makes us poor.
Even victors are by victories undone.
All heiresses are beautiful.
Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.
But love's a malady without a cure.
He who would search for pearls must dive below.
All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
The first is the law, the last prerogative.
Look around the inhabited world; how few know their own good, or knowing it, pursue.
The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
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!
Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
Successful crimes alone are justified.
And love's the noblest frailty of the mind.
Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.
If you be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed the deeper they burn.
Either be wholly slaves or wholly free.
Self-defence is Nature's eldest law.
Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne'er pardon who have done wrong.
To die is landing on some distant shore.
Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
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.
You see through love, and that deludes your sight, As what is straight seems crooked through the water.
Tomorrow do thy worst, I have lived today.
Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
Genius must be born, and never can be taught.
All objects lose by too familiar a view.
Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail.
But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.
They that possess the prince possess the laws.
Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
