Toleration is the best religion.

Table talk and Lovers' talk equally elude the grasp; Lovers' talk is clouds, table talk is smoke.

In the animal world no creature born to be a dove turns into a scavenger. This happens only among men.

Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.

Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.

Sacrificing the earth for paradise is giving up the substance for the shadow.

Dying is nothing. What's terrible is not to live.