Conversation with a friend will only bear good fruit of knowledge when both think only of the matter under consideration and forget that they are friends.

You lack the courage to be consumed in flames and to become ashes: so you will never become new, and never young again!

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.

Many a peacock hides his peacock tail from all eyes--and calls it his pride.

When the gratitude of many to one throws away all shame, we behold fame.

We should turn our death into a celebration, even if only out of a malice towards life: towards the woman who wants to leave--us!

One should not wish to enjoy where one does not give joy.