The virtuous woman must be treated like a relic - adored, but not handled; she should be guarded and prized, like a fine flower-garden, the beauty and fragrance of which the owner allows others to enjoy only at a distance, and through iron walls.

Let us forget and forgive injuries.

Lovers are commonly industrious to make themselves uneasy.

There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war.

Wit and humor do not reside in slow minds.

Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world

I know well enough that there have been dogs so loving that they have thrown themselves into the same grave with the dead bodies of their masters.