I have other fish to fry.

Love is influenced by no consideration, recognizes no restraints of reason, and is of the same nature as death, that assails alike the lofty palaces of kings and the humble cabins of shepherds; and when it takes entire possession of a heart, the first thing it does is to banish fear and shame from it.

I do not deny that what happened to us is a thing worth laughing at. But it is not worth telling, for not everyone is sufficiently intelligent to be able to see things from the right point of view.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

The pen is the tongue of the mind.

When the head aches, all the members partake of the pain.

Do not eat garlic or onions; for their smell will reveal that you are a peasant.