Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.

Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.

The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honor which set off virtue.

My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.

Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.

According to the saying of an ancient philosopher, one should eat to live, and not live to eat

The road is a long one from the projection of a thing to its accomplishment.