Men are so made that they can resist sound argument, and yet yield to a glance.

True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!

Emulation admires and strives to imitate great actions; envy is only moved to malice.

An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.

One can imagine the look the two lovers exchanged; it was like a flame, for virtuous lovers have not a shred of hypocrisy.

Modesty is the conscience of the body.

We love because we love.