Valor is abased by too much loftiness.

There is nothing so great that I fear to do it for my friend; nothing so small that I will disdain to do it for him.

There is nothing evil but what is within us; the rest is either natural or accidental.

Weigh not so much what men assert, as what they prove. Truth is simple and naked, and needs not invention to apparel her comeliness.

No decking sets forth anything so much as affection.

It is no less vain to wish death than it is cowardly to fear it.

Whatever comes out of despair cannot bear the title of valor, which should be lifted up to such a height that holding all things under itself, it should be able to maintain its greatness, even in the midst of miseries.