Excitement is the drunkenness of the spirits. Only calm waters reflect heaven in their bosom.
Love works in miracles every day: such as weakening the strong, and stretching the weak; making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools; favouring the passions, destroying reason, and in a word, turning everything topsy-turvy.
It is only the educated who can produce or appreciate high art.
The cup of joy is heaviest when empty.
distrust ... is the beginning of hatred.
There are women so hard to please that it would seem as if nothing less than an angel would suit them; and hence it comes that they often encounter devils.