What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless.
If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.
Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay.
What makes men indifferent to their wives is that they can see them when they please.
Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.
Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.
Love is a thing that is full of cares and fears.
Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships; the poor man everywhere lies low.
Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.
Tears at times have the weight of speech.
A man is sorry to be honest for nothing.
Habits change into character.
In our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are.
Use the occasion, for it passes swiftly.
Bear patiently with a rival.
How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.
Against the bold, daring is unsafe.
Beauty is a fragile gift.
Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.
Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.
Let what is irksome become habitual, no more will it trouble you.
We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.
Every lover is a soldier.
My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.
An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.
Majesty and love do not consort well together, nor do they dwell in the same place.
Love is a credulous thing.
Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.
Most safely shall you tread the middle path.
Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair.
In an easy matter. Anybody can be eloquent.
All things can corrupt when minds are prone to evil.
The burden which is well borne becomes light.
Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves.
Make the workmanship surpass the materials.
The cause is hidden; the effect is visible to all.