To have compassion for those who suffer is a human quality which everyone should possess, especially those who have required comfort themselves in the past and have managed to find it in others.

While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman.

People tend to believe the bad rather than the good.

No-thing less splendid than a golden sepulchre would have suited so noble a heart.

In the affairs of this world, poverty alone is without envy.

It's better to repent what you enjoyed than to repent not having enjoyed anything.

Kissed mouth don’t lose its fortune, on the contrary it renews itself just as the moon does.