Eagles don't catch flies.
once it's jam, it can't be strawberries anymore.
It's fear that makes a situation dangerous.
Even enlightened despots don't make very good teachers.
I was unwilling to be the good girl who respected the rules in a game designed to keep everyone but the rulemakers off balance.
A wicked wife, a false friend, a saucy servant and living in a house with a serpent in it are nothing but death.
To cure us of our immoderate love of gain, we should seriously consider how many goods there are that money will not purchase, and these the best; and how many evils there are that money will not remedy, and these the worst.
In you, humanity is precarious; and so, in dread and in shame, you kill the animal in you. And its slaughter poisons you.
We dreamed together of the world remade.