We ask the poet: 'What subject have you chosen?' instead of: 'What subject has chosen you?

The poor never estimate as a virtue the generosity of the rich.

There are women who love their husbands as blindly, as enthusiastically, and as enigmatically as nuns their cloister.

Only the thinking man lives his life, the thoughtless man's life passes him by.

Do not fear the ones who argue, but rather those who are evasive.

Hatred is a prolific vice; envy, a barren vice.

One can acquire some virtues by feigning them for a long time.