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

One good turn deserves another.

I believe that school makes complete fools of our young men, because they see and hear nothing of ordinary life there.

Just as dumb creatures are snared by food, human beings would not be caught unless they had a nibble of hope.

Women are one and all a set of vultures.

A man who is always ready to believe what is told him will never do well, especially a businessman.

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.

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 world wants to be deceived.

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.

There’s nothing like the feeling of knowing that you’ve made a difference in someone’s life, even if that difference is a lifetime of nightmares and a fortune in therapy bills.

One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.

The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.

Each misfortune you encounter will carry in it the seed of tomorrow’s good luck.

Should I be grateful or should I curse the fact that despite all misfortune I can still feel love, an unearthly love but still for earthly objects.

A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.

Some men make fortunes, but not to enjoy them for, blinded by avarice, they live to make fortunes.

Obviously the most beautiful fate, the most wonderful good fortune that can happen to any human being, is to be paid for doing that which he passionately loves to do.