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.
It is easy to flatter; it is harder to praise.
A scholar knows no boredom.
It is not the end of joy that makes old age so sad, but the end of hope.
Beauty attracts us men; but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power.
Love lessens woman's delicacy and increases man's.