Thou shall know by experience how salt the savor is of others' bread, and how sad a path it is to climb and descend another's stairs.

Fame is not won on downy plumes nor under canopies; the man who consumes his days without obtaining it leaves such mark of himself on earth as smoke in air or foam on water.

L'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle (The love that moves the sun and the other stars)

The day that man allows true love to appear, those things which are well made will fall into cofusion and will overturn everything we believe to be right and true.

Love and the gentle heart are but the same thing.

They had their faces twisted toward their haunches and found it necessary to walk backward, because they could not see ahead of them. ...And since he wanted so to see ahead, he looks behind and walks a backward path.

The truth thy speech doth show, within my heart reproves the swelling pride.