Love lessens woman's delicacy and increases man's.
Nations and men are only the best when they are the gladdest, and deserve heaven when they enjoy it.
Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.
Man has here two and a half minutes-one to smile, one to sigh, and a half to love: for in the midst of this minute he dies.
A scholar knows no boredom.
We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.