If there is a fruit that can be eaten raw, it is beauty.

Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.

Let us try to see things from their better side: You complain about seeing thorny rose bushes; Me, I rejoice and give thanks to the gods That thorns have roses.

Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty.

One expresses well only the love he does not feel.

Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.

Though we have two eyes, we are supplied with but one tongue. Draw your own moral.