Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

Patience and shuffle the cards.

There were no embraces, because where there is great love there is often little display of it.

When we leave this world, and are laid in the earth, the prince walks as narrow a path as the day-laborer.

There is no jewel in the world so valuable as a chaste and virtuous woman.

Whom God loves, his house is sweet to him.