To go into temptation to find how strong you are, is as wise as to go before a mirror, with closed eyes, to find how you look when asleep.
For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.
Experience is the only good 'tis safer to borrow than to buy.
Few can tell what they know without also showing what they do not know.
The greatest pleasures of love are inseparable from its greatest pains: Love has the face of a goddess, but the talons of a lion.
As the sea is beautiful not only in calm but also in storm, so is happiness found not only in peace but also in strife.