You cannot eat your cake and have your cake.

She wanted, with her fickleness, to make my destruction constant; I want, by trying to destroy myself, to satisfy her desire.

Anyone who does not know how to make the most of his luck has no right to complain if it passes by him.

To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope.

Translating from one language to another, unless it is from Greek and Latin, the queens of all languages, is like looking at Flemish tapestries from the wrong side, for although the figures are visible, they are covered by threads that obscure them, and cannot be seen with the smoothness and color of the right side.

Now blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep. It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak.

Beware, gentle knight - the greatest monster of them all is reason.