Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.

Even if misfortune is only good for bringing a fool to his senses, it would still be just to deem it good for something.

Every one turns his dreams into realities as far as he can; man is cold as ice to the truth, hot as fire to falsehood.

I bend and do not break.

What a wonderful thing it is to have a good friend. He identifies your innermost desires, and spares you the embarrassment of disclosing them to him yourself.

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

He knows the universe and does not know himself.