What is love? two souls and one flesh; friendship? two bodies and one soul.

Say nothing good of yourself, you will be distrusted; say nothing bad of yourself, you will be taken at your word.

The Holy Scriptures praise the dew of the morning and the dew of the evening; ros matutinum, ros serotinum! Happy is he who possesses the gift of tears! when young, he will bear flowers; when old, fruit!

Friendship is the ideal; friends are the reality; reality always remains far apart from the ideal.

Our experience is composed rather of illusions lost than of wisdom acquired.

It is impossible to be just if one is not generous.

That which deceives us and does us harm, also undeceives us and does us good.