True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Love knows nothing of order.

So valuable to heaven is the dignity of the human soul that every member of the human race has a guardian angel from the moment the person begins to be.

Endeavor to have always in your hand a pious book, that with this shield you may defend yourself against bad thoughts.

[O]pulence is always the result of theft, if not committed by the actual possessor, then by his predecessors.

If it is good not to touch a woman, then it is bad to touch a woman always and in every case.

Always be doing something worthwhile; then the devil will always find you busy.