To love is human, it is also human to forgive.

Besides that, when elsewhere the harvest of wheat is most abundant, there it comes up less by one-fourth than what you have sowed. There, methinks, it were a proper place for men to sow their wild oats, where they would not spring up.

He is a friend indeed who proves himself a friend in need.

As long as she is wise and good, a girl has sufficient dowry.

Courage easily finds its own eloquence.

Let a man who wants to find abundance of employment procure a woman and a ship: for no two things do produce more trouble if you begin to equip them; neither are these two things ever equipped enough.

I regard that man as lost, who has lost his sense of shame.