The virtues, as well as the faults of others are often magnified by reason of malice and envy.


Man is a traveller; his life is a mountain.

Do not be proud. Beauty is as life, and life is as a flower, fresh one morning, withered and faded in a few hours.


If you wish to find a thing, search well and willingly.


When he felt all the warmth of love, you were all coolness; now that you feel all the love, he naturally thinks of all the difficulties.


Nothing more than neediness afflicts and irritates the spirit of the vain.