Pepper is small in quantity and great in virtue.

Discordance is evil. Harmony is virtue.

Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow... even if that someone is yourself!

When a person meets the half that is his very own, whatever his orientation, whether it's to young men or not, then something wonderful happens: the two are struck from their senses by love, by a sense of belonging to one another, and by desire, and they don't want to be separated from one another, not even for a moment.

The more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation.

Self conquest is the greatest of victories.

Truth is its own reward.