It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

Fancy sets the value on the gifts of fortune.

If you cannot find peace in yourself, it is useless to look for it elsewhere.

It is impossible to love a second time what we have really ceased to love.

Humility is the sure evidence of Christian virtues. Without it, we retain all our faults still, and they are only covered over with pride, which hides them from other men's observation, and sometimes from our own too.

Hatred is stronger than friendship.

Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.