I know what happiness and what despair are, and I never make a jest of such feelings. Take it, then, but in exchange —

Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy

...joy takes a strange effect at times, it seems to oppress us almost the same as sorrow.

Truly generous men are always ready to become sympathetic when their enemy’s misfortune surpasses the limits of their hatred.

It is only the dead who do not return.

For all evils there are two remedies - time and silence.

......When one loves, one is only too ready to believe one's love returned.