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.
As long as I fear my weakness, I am stronger than when I trust my strength.
However bad a man, he will have some friends: however good, he will have some enemies.
Experience is the only good 'tis safer to borrow than to buy.
For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it.
The greatest pleasures of love are inseparable from its greatest pains: Love has the face of a goddess, but the talons of a lion.