I think you have to be cool to be a good flirt, and I don't think I'm very cool.
He that will forget God, will also forget his benefactors.
Grief never ends, but it changes. It is a passage, not a place to stay. Grief is not a sign of weakness nor a lack of faith: it is the price of love.
Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.
Men fight wars. Women win them.
Though the sex to which I belong is considered weak you will nevertheless find me a rock that bends to no wind.
I would gladly chastise those who represent things as different from what they are. Those who steal property or make counterfeit money are punished, and those ought to be still more severely dealt with who steal away or falsify the good name of a prince.
People will become what you think of them. See them for their beauty and they will rise up. See them for their darkness, and they will fall.
Being alive is a common road. It's what we notice makes us different.
The thing I've discovered that is a help is that there isn't a simple virtue or a simple vice. They're always connected. If you have Tendency A, that you loathe, you can almost be sure that Tendency B, which you love, is somehow connected to it.
We can choose to allow our experiences to hold us back, and to not allow us to become great or achieve greatness in this life. Or we can allow our experiences to push us forward, to make us grateful for every day we have and to be all the more thankful for those who are around us.