"Time, motion and wine cause sleep."

"The prayers of cowards fortune spurns."

"Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be fish."

"A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward."

"In our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are."

"Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength."

"Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves."

"Burdens become light when cheerfully borne."

"Love is a kind of warfare."

"The prickly thorn often bears soft roses."

"Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked."

"Majesty and love do not consort well together, nor do they dwell in the same place."

"Let what is irksome become habitual, no more will it trouble you."

"Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it there will be a fish."

"He who says o'er much I love not is in love."

"Where belief is painful we are slow to believe."

"All things change nothing is extinguished."

"If you want to be loved, be lovable."

"Her clear conscience mocked rumour's mendacity, But we are a mob prone to credit sin."

"What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct."

"Sleep rest of nature O sleep most gentle of the divinities peace of the soul thou at whose presence care disappears who soothest hearts wearied with daily employments and makest them strong again for labour!"

"As wave is driven by wave And each, pursued, pursues the wave ahead, So time flies on and follows, flies, and follows, Always, for ever and new. What was before Is left behind; what never was is now; And every passing moment is renewed."

"An evil life is a kind of death."

"Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul."

"And besides, we lovers fear everything."

"Happy the man who ventures boldly to defend what he holds dear."

"The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea."

"Ah me! love can not be cured by herbs."

"Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality."

"Happy the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind and has given up worrying once and for all."

"What one beholds of a woman is the least part of her."

"The gods are created by poets."

"As the yellow gold is tried in fire so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity."

"The cause is hidden; the effect is visible to all."

"Every lover is a soldier."

"Like fragile ice anger passes away in time."

"Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by."

"You will go most safely in the middle."

"Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair."

"The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged."

"Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft."

"What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps; with it alone, she lives."

"Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body."

"I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement."

"Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence."

"No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it."

"How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man."

"I am the poet of the poor, because I was poor when I loved; since I could not give gifts, I gave words."

"Love is a thing that is full of cares and fears."

"A man is sorry to be honest for nothing."