Let man fear woman when she loves: then she makes any sacrifice, and everything else seems without value to her

The scaffolding must be removed once the house is built.

In the mountains, the shortest way is from peak to peak: but for that you must have long legs

The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.

Man is not equally moral at all hours, this is well known. If his morality is judged to be the capability for great self-sacrificing resolutions and self-denial (which, when continuous and grown habitual, are called holiness)

Your only problem, perhaps, is that you scream without letting yourself cry.

Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy.