My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.

The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.

And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.

Everyone has a right to his own course of action.

Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death

Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.

Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.