It is better to teach a few things perfectly than many things indifferently...
The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences.
Either the soul is immortal and we shall not die, or it perishes with the flesh and we shall not know that we are dead. Live, then, as if you were eternal.
In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
Style is the hallmark of a temperament stamped upon the material at hand.