This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves.

This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

When a man is in love he endures more than at other times; he submits to everything

In revenge and in love, woman is more barbarous than man

Love of one is a piece of barbarism: for it is practised at the expense of all others. Love of God likewise.

The real world is much smaller than the imaginary