Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.
I am above being injured by fortune, though she steals away much, more will remain with me. The blessing I now enjoy transcend fear.
Anything cracked will shatter at a touch.
Love is the force that leaves you colorless.
It’s a kindness that the mind can go where it wishes.
God himself helps those who dare.
Tears at times have the weight of speech.
Love is a naked child: do you think he has pockets for money?
Calumny ever pursues the great, even as the winds hurl themselves on high places.
Virtue and vice, evil and good, are siblings, or next-door neighbors, Easy to make mistakes, hard to tell them apart.
Every woman thinks herself attractive; even the plainest is satisfied with the charms she deems that she possesses.
Women’s words are as light as the doomed leaves whirling in autumn, Easily swept by the wind, easily drowned by the wave.
The mind grows sicker than the body in contemplation of it’s suffering.
He who can simulate sanity will be sane.
Only begin, and you will become eloquent of yourself.
Pleasant words are the food of love.
Men should not care too much for good looks; neglect is becoming.
God gave man an upright countenance to survey the heavens, and to look upward to the stars.
Pluck with quick hand the fruit that passes.
A safe pleasure is a tame pleasure.