That the wife of an old husband is like the ivy that hangs over the branches: when the hairy maple she embraces both his trunk and crown, she is young and fresh - the old maple.
The god of love is unyielding: He, if you upset him, takes revenge and loses you.
Being overconfident is foolish and dangerous, and naivety is the path to suffering. But to see without any proof, at once, treason everywhere - is no less foolish.
In matters of honor the Language of astrology does not help.
Friendship is born on the journey and in prison, and here too the human possibilities are fully manifested.
In love there is always harmony and peace, and in an instant everything can become hell!
Don't walk through other people's houses, when you have to protect your own from harm.
The most important rule of art says that it cannot imitate anything but the verisimilitude.
Because he is not a slave who groans under the blows of the whip, nor a renegade who, according to Heaven's will, Lives alone and withdrawn in suffering, He is not poor who asks for a corner of bread. But he is also a slave, poor, and lonely, the one who in life chose the palace of vice.
That the one who is no longer of any use, Forget gave him and the heart rejects him.
The sight delights the lovers, And only the one who sees love has a part, And its aroma.
Earth has always been man's natural mother, and water - stepmother.
Show off her beauty always. But cruelty is disgusting.
Courage lies in being able to rise above blind passion.
The look of the jealous, I repeat, is more dangerous than any rush.
It has been known for a long time: Love does not bind between those who are unequal.
There are people who cannot begin to love unless they have first been humiliated, and the very thing that arouses disgust in others, inflames their passion.
Women-in-love It is not good for them to be cunning!
Know that of friends and ideas, Of women and sails You mustn't judge hastily. Friends can also deceive us; Ideas must be weighed; You have to look carefully at the sails. And in women, the wonderful Body is often observed, but without a soul.
To slander, nay, vehemently, Is as pleasant as can be, my dear. The poets also said it only: Gossip keeps us cold in winter And the hot summer makes it cool.
Betraying your friend is a crime Without any excuse and unforgivable.
No matter how much a man is in love, he loves himself the most.
And how many new things death brings, and changes, and changes In every country and every house.
When the soul tends to another soul, He is blind and has no fear.
When the lover is angry with his beloved, an even more fiery and tender love results.
When we love, we lose sight.
The extreme opposite of love is neither separation, nor jealousy, nor forgetfulness, nor greed, but strife.
Who is unworthy of heights That fate lays him on the ground.
He who is skillful knows quickly Who is petty and who stinks.
Whose heart did not open at first, In vain knock on the door with strength!