It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together

True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also some reason in madness.

Books have led some to learning and others to madness

All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.

Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief