My only politics have been friendship.
Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.
Be a constant outrage to modesty There is nothing to fear: modesty is exercised only among the blind.
Everyone's pet is the most outstanding. This begets mutual blindness.
Cultivate everything the critics hated in your first work - that's what makes you unique.
I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another.