One only dies once, and if one does not die well, a good opportunity is lost and will not present itself again.

It is enough for the evil people to succeed, for the good people to do nothing.

Who does not love his own tongue is far worse than a brute or stinking fish.

When there is in nature no fixed condition, how much less must there be in the life of a people, beings endowed with mobility and movement!

Dying people don't need medicine, the ones who remain do.

She was white, perhaps too white. Her eyes, which were almost always cast down, when she raised them testified to the purest of souls, and when she smiled, revealing her small, white teeth, one might be tempted to say that a rose is merely a plant, and ivory just an elephant's tusk.

No good water comes from a muddy spring. No sweet fruit comes from a bitter seed.