"Arcum intensio frangit; animum, remissio."

"Cum vitia prosint, peccat qui recte facit."

"The flood of grief decreaseth, when it can swell no higher."

"The fortune which nobody sees makes a man happy and unenvied."

"Malus ubi bonum se simulat, tunc est pessimus."

"They live ill, who think to live for ever."

"The coward calls himself a cautious man; and the miser says, he is frugal."

"It is a strange desire which men have, to seek power and lose liberty."

"Death ... extinguishes envy."

"He that studieth revenge, keepeth his own wounds green."