Love doesn't hide. It stays and fights. It goes the distance, that's why love is so strong. So it can carry you all the way home.

I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Desire is poison at lunch and wormwood at dinner; your bed is a stone, friendship is hateful and your fancy is always fixed on one thing.

If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them.

Anger represents a certain power, when a great mind, prevented from executing its own generous desires, is moved by it.

There is no food more satiating than milk and honey; and just as such foods produce disgust for the palate, so perfumed and gallant words make our ears belch.

What evil is there in seeing a man possess a woman? Why, the beasts would be more free than we!