Not the intensity but the duration of high feelings makes high men.

I love him whose soul is deep even in the wounding, and may succumb through a small matter: thus goeth he willingly over the bridge.

Is it not better to fall into the hands of a murderer, than into the dreams of a lustful woman?

Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.

People live for the morrow, because the day-after-to-morrow is doubtful.

At the beginning of a marriage ask yourself whether this woman will be interesting to talk to from now until old age. Everything else in marriage is transitory: most of the time is spent in conversation.

I love the valiant; but it is not enough to wield a broadsword, one must also know against whom.