Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Conscience is the voice of the soul, the passions are the voice of the body. It is strange that these voices often contradict each other?

We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.

The man who gets the most out of life is not the one who has lived it longest, but the one who has felt life most deeply.

He who pretends to look on death without fear lies. All men are afraid of dying, this is the great law of sentient beings, without which the entire human species would soon be destroyed.

Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.

Trust your heart rather than your head.