Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you.

Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.

The greatest wisdom consists in knowing one's own follies.

The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.

Sow good services; sweet remembrances will grow them.

The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeking them, they do not satisfy us when possessing them and they make us despair in losing them.