Silver is of less value than gold, gold than virtue.

I want to live, and die with you.

Those unacquainted with the world take pleasure in intimacy with great men; those who are wiser fear the consequences.

Force without reason falls of its own weight.

One night awaits all, and death's path must be trodden once and for all.

No man is born without faults.

In the same [hospitable] manner that a Calabrian would press you to eat his pears.