“Where envy reigns virtue can’t exist, and generosity doesn’t go with meanness.”

What man can pretend to know the riddle of a woman’s mind?

A Man Without Honor is Worse than Dead.

One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as good as themselves.

Patience and shuffle the cards.

Woman’s advice has little value, but he who won’t take it is a fool.

The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune’s spite; revive from ashes and rise.

Love not what you are but only what you may become.

A wise man does not trust all his eggs to one basket.

That which we are capable of feeling, we are capable of saying.

It is good to live and learn.

The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works.

The road to the inn is much better than the stay.

Every man is the son of his own works.

There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots.

One of the effects of fear is to disturb the senses and cause things to appear other than what they are.

I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.

Missing you like you no longer exist.

Love exists in the small moments of understanding when a person gets you without you needing to explain yourself to them.

If loneliness exists, it’s because we all need a little pink in the gray of the sky.

Some days it is exhausting to simply exist.

The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.

It would be wrong to say that the soul is an illusion or an ideological effect. On the contrary, it exists, it has a reality.

It is not the consciousness of man that determines his existence – rather, it is his social existence that determines his consciousness.

Prohibited from plucking my bluebell emotions, my non-existent existence keeps kindling the aroma of my love.