Prudence and love cannot be mixed; you can end love, but never moderate it.

You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.

A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.

All things are cause for either laughter or weeping.

Philosophy is the art and law of life, and it teaches us what to do in all cases, and, like good marksmen, to hit the white at any distance.

There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won't make the crooked straight.

Small sorrows speak great ones are silent.