Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.
A man taking basil from a woman will love her always.
Getting married is like putting one's hand in a bag containing 99 serpents and one eel.
Nobody sees a flower really,it is so small. We haven't time,and to see takes time- like to have a friend takes time. One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled, but few are educated.
He travels best that knows when to return.
A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him.
Pride measures prosperity not by her own advantages but by the disadvantages of others. She would not even wish to be a goddess unless there were some wretches left whom she could order about and lord it over, whose misery would make her happiness seem all the more extraordinary, whose poverty can be tormented and exacerbated by a display of her wealth. This infernal serpent, pervading the human heart, keeps men from reforming their lives, holding them back like a suckfish.
I lost my parents when I was fairly young.
I have as much experience in the Congress as Jack Kennedy did when he sought the presidency.
The Ancients, having taken into consideration the rigorous construction of the human body, elaborated all their works, as especially their holy temples, according to these proportions; for they found here the two principal figures without which no project is possible: the perfection of the circle, the principle of all regular bodies, and the equilateral square.
I believe the cost of life is Death and we will all pay that in full. Everything else should be a gift.