What valor cannot win, flattery may.
Cruelty isn’t softened by tears; it feeds on them.
You are in a pitiable condition if you have to conceal what you wish to tell.
A guilty conscience never feels secure.
Unless degree is preserved, the first place is safe for no one.
We should lay up in peace what we shall need in war.
Anyone who believes that men are the equal of women has never seen a man trying to wrap a Christmas present.
Conversation is the image of the mind. As the man is, so is his talk.
The eyes start love; intimacy perfects it.
No one knows what he can do till he tries.
When you can despise death, you have conquered all fears.
God looks with favor at pure, not full, hands.
He who has plenty of pepper will pepper his cabbage.
The swiftest despatch seems slow to desire.
An enemy despised is the most dangerous of all enemies.
In love, anger is always false.
The power of habit is very strong.
Friendship is stronger than kindred.
The eye strays not while under the guidance of reason.
To die at the command of another is to die twice.