In any science, in any art, the best teacher is experience.
In misfortune, fate always leaves an escape hatch.
In the presence of the object of love, even the boldest tongues are silenced, and exactly what would have been said more remains unsaid.
Extraordinary people are capable of extraordinary kindness.
Everything in the world can be straightened out, except death.
Every man must be judged according to his deeds.
Every comedy, like every song, has its time and its season.
Talking without thinking is the same as shooting without aiming.
Pain can equally bind and unbind the tongue of the sufferer.
It's a shame if the woman looks less beautiful than she could.
Doing good to fools is the same as pouring water into the sea.
It behooves brave hearts to be as patient in times of distress as they are joyful in times of prosperity.
Good deeds should never be delayed: any procrastination is reckless and dangerous.
If all that glittered were made of gold, gold would be much cheaper.
Live according to the truth - here is the best teaching.
The merits of the father do not extend to the son.
Even the best medicine will not help the sick person if he refuses to take it.
History is the treasury of our deeds, the witness of the past, an example and lesson for the present, a warning for the future.
He who does not know how to enjoy happiness when it comes, need not complain when it disappears.
Better colored on the face than stained on the soul.
Love wears such glasses through which copper looks like gold, poverty like wealth, and the sparks of fire like pearls.
Limbus usually gives rise to boredom.
You cannot love under compulsion.
There is no pain or suffering, physical or mental, that does not weaken with time and that death cannot heal.
Nothing is more handy and nothing is more precious than politeness.
A brave heart overcomes all troubles.
Praise is good only when the praiser is also good.
Truth sometimes bends, but never breaks, and rises above lies like oil above water.
Jealousy always looks through the telescope and makes small objects big, dwarfs giants, suspicions truths.
The most dangerous trap, which only the devil can set for a man, is to instill in him the idea that he can write a book that will bring him as much fame as money, and as much money as fame.