Where do your greatest dangers lie?--In pity.

To discover he is loved in return ought really to disenchant the lover with the beloved.

The truth is ugly: we have art so as not to perish from the truth.

Where there is the tree of knowledge, there is always Paradise: so say the most ancient and most modern serpents.

Annoyance is a physical malady that is in no way cured just because the annoying situation that causes it is eliminated.

The body is a big sagacity, a plurality with one sense, a war and a peace, a flock and a shepherd.

Those who show pity and are always ready to help during times of trouble are seldom the same ones who rejoice in our joy: when others are happy they have nothing to do, they become superfluous and lose their feeling of superiority, and so they easily show their displeasure.