True love can fear no one.

Speech is the index of the mind.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

Refrain from following the example of those whose craving is for attention, not their own improvement.

What a vile and abject thing is man if he do not raise himself above humanity.

Familiarity reduces the greatness of things.

The condition of all who are preoccupied is wretched, but most wretched is the condition of those who labor at preoccupations that are not even their own, who regulate their sleep by that of another, their walk by the pace of another, who are under orders in case of the freest things in the world-loving and hating. If these wish to know how short their life is, let them reflect how small a part of it is their own.