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.

Lovers are commonly industrious to make themselves uneasy.

Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise.

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.

Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches.

God who gives the wound gives the salve.

Tis an old saying, the Devil lurks behind the cross. All is not gold that glitters. From the tail of the plough, Bamba was made King of Spain; and from his silks and riches was Rodrigo cast to be devoured by the snakes.