Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.

Fire proves gold, adversity proves men.

Do everything as in the eye of another.

Not to feel one's misfortunes is not human, not to bear them is not manly.

Every day, therefore, should be regulated as if it were the one that brings up the rear, the one that rounds out and completes our lives.

If wisdom were offered me with the proviso that I should keep it shut up and refrain from declaring it, I should refuse. There's no delight in owning anything unshared.