All men have one refuge, a good friend, with whom you can weep and know that he does not smile.
If you want to live your whole life free from pain you must become either a god or else a corpse. Consider other men's troubles and that will comfort you.
Of all the wild beasts of land or sea, the wildest is woman.
How sweet is life, can we but choose with whom to live it: to live for oneself is no life.
The good man makes others good.
Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil.