There is no small pleasure in pure water.
So long as you are secure you will count many friends; if your life becomes clouded you will be alone.
In prosperity you may count on many friends; if the sky becomes overcast you will be alone.
Courage conquers all things.
Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.
Judgement of beauty can err, what with the wine and the dark.