There is no benefit so large that malignity will not lessen it; none so narrow that a good interpretation will not enlarge it.

Anger is like a ruin, which, in falling upon its victim, breaks itself to pieces.

Time is the one thing that is given to everyone in equal measure.

I know that nothing comes to pass but what God appoints; our fate is decreed, and things do not happen by chance, but every man's portion of joy and sorrow is predetermined.

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.

I can see clothes of silk, if materials that do not hide the body, nor even one's decency, can be called clothes. ... Wretched flocks of maids labor so that the adulteress may be visible through her thin dress, so that her husband has no more acquaintance than any outsider or foreigner with his wife's body.

It's unknown the place and uncertain the time where death awaits you; thus you must expect death to find you, every time, at every place.