It is sweet to mingle tears with tears; Griefs, where they wound in solitude, Wound more deeply.

A thing seriously pursued affords true enjoyment.

Human nature is so constituted that insults sink deeper than kindnesses; the remembrance of the latter soon passes away, while that of the former is treasured in the memory.

Concealed anger is to be feared; but hatred openly manifested destroys its chance of revenge.

The things that are essential are acquired with little bother; it is the luxuries that call for toil and effort.

Corporeal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.

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.