Most benefactors are like unskillful generals who take the city and leave the citadel intact.

Every woman in choosing a lover takes more account of the way in which other women regard the man than of her own.

A woman is like your shadow; follow her, she flies; fly from her, she follows.

Conviction is the conscience of intellect.

The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity.

Remorse turns us against ourselves.

Be my brother or I will kill you.