A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.

Not he that adorns but he that adores makes a divinity.

Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.

Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed.

Nothing is good for him for whom nothing is bad.

There is no wilderness like a life without friends; friendship multiplies blessings and minimizes misfortunes; it is a unique remedy against adversity, and it soothes the soul.

Knowledge without courage is sterile.