If God be my friend, I cannot be wretched.
You who seek an end of love, love yields to business: be busy, and you will be safe.
Meet the disorder in the outset, the medicine may be too late, when the disease has gained ground through delay.
The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.
If he should love deny him what he loves!
Yield to him who opposes you; by yielding you conquer.