Where there is friendship, there is our natural soil.

The wicked can have only accomplices, the voluptuous have companions in debauchery, self-seekers have associates, the politic assemble the factions, the typical idler has connections, princes have courtiers. Only the virtuous have friends.

When his highness sends a ship to Egypt, does he trouble his head whether the mice on board are at their ease or not?

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.

Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.

Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.