"Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, upon pain of death, all the pleasures of youth."

"The world is a stage, and all the men and women merely players."

"An army is a good dog that barks when its master bids it."

"A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in."

"A man who is too sensitive to the world and too much given to reflection will find it hard to endure the slings and arrows of misfortune."