"Arcum intensio frangit; animum, remissio."

"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."

"A mixture of falsehood is like alloy in gold and silver, which may make the metal work the better, but it debaseth it."

"Death ... extinguishes envy."

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