Meet the disorder in the outset, the medicine may be too late, when the disease has gained ground through delay.
I am the poet of the poor, because I was poor when I loved; since I could not give gifts, I gave words.
Happy is he who dares courageously to defend what he loves.
You will be safest in the middle.
All love is vanquished by a succeeding love.
"Gutta cavat lapidem." (Dripping water carves a stone.)