Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Eternity is called whole, not because it has parts, but because it is lacking in nothing.

The meaning of what is said is according to the motive for saying it: because things are not subject to speech, but speech to things. Therefore we should take account of the motive of the lawgiver, rather than of his very words.

I answer that, Even, as in the blessed in heaven there will be most perfect charity, so in the damned there will be the most perfect hate.

The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces.

An act of love always tends towards two things; to the good that one wills, and to the person for whom one wills it.