“How often the highest talent lurks in obscurity.”

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.

It is a great plague to be too handsome a man.

If anything is spoken in jest, it is not fair to turn it to earnest.

And so it happens oft in many instances; more good is done without our knowledge than by us intended.

You will stir up the hornets.

He gains wisdom in a happy way, who gains it by another’s experience.

There are games in which it is better to lose than win.

I am myself my own commander.

The man who would be fully employed should procure a ship or a woman, for no two things produce more trouble.

If you do anything well, gratitude is lighter than a feather; if you give offense in anything, people’s wrath is as heavy as lead.

He who has in due season become rich, unless he saves in due season, will in due season starve.

Every one can remember that which has interested himself.

The gods give that man some profit to whom they are propitious.

Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt.

If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by it, you have reason to rejoice.

When you fly from temptation, don’t leave a forwarding address. Where there’s smoke there’s fire.

To make them feel for me, or to make them hate me, I want a reaction. I want their emotions.

Caught between the tongue and the taste.

Be strong to hope, O Heart! Though day is bright,

But still our place is kept, and it will wait, Ready for us to fill it, soon or late.

Lava bread makes you passionate.

Daesh members wear shoes. Does this mean everybody who wears shoes is Daesh?

She was bedridden falling a fall which broke her hip.

What disturbed me most, frankly, about the Rod Rosenstein memo, is the fact it was addressed to the attorney general.