Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.

Do everything as in the eye of another.

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

Do you desire not to be angry? Be not inquisitive. He who inquires what is said of him only works out his own misery.

Many men provoke others to overreach them by excessive suspicion; their extraordinary distrust in some sort justifies the deceit.

Look at the stars lighting up the sky: no one of them stays in the same place.

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