“The world wants to be deceived.”

Leave your home, O youth, and seek out alien shores. A wider range of life has been ordained for you.

Everyone will find what he’s looking for. Nothing pleases everyone: this man gathers thorns, that one roses.

While fortune lasts you will see your friend’s face.

The world wills itself to be deceived, so let it be deceived.

Outward beauty is not enough; to be attractive a woman must use words, wit, playfulness, sweet-talk, and laughter to transcend the gifts of nature.

The mind longs for what it has missed.

Wisdom and beauty form a very rare combination.

A physician is nothing but a consoler of the mind.

A doctor is nothing more than consolation for the spirit.

He has gone over to the majority.

Heaven is equally distant everywhere.

Nothing is falser than people’s preconceptions and ready-made opinions; nothing is sillier than their sham morality.

Can’t you see that I’m only advising you to beg yourself not to be so dumb

What power has law where only money rules?

Beauty and wisdom are rarely conjoined.

The favor for the favor or One hand washes the other.

I don’t read books by people who have betrayed the Motherland.

Betray a friend, and you’ll often find you have ruined yourself.

To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal. I could conceive death, but I could not conceive betrayal.

If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if they betray you twice, it’s your fault.

For a woman betrayal has no sense – one cannot betray one’s passions.

Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn’t matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal.

Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.

For in other ways a woman is full of fear, defenseless, dreads the sight of cold steel; but, when once she is wronged in the matter of love, no other soul can hold so many thoughts of blood.