What's wonderful about a woman, sure, To be new and forever changing.
Zeal is born from the soul, Deed, from the brave chest, Courage, from inner strength, Pride, from secret thoughts, Firmness, from burning desire, Enthusiasm, from hope, Courage, from strength of spirit, Fierce, from irritation, Sociable nature , from temperance, Fearlessness, from conceit, Gentleness, from noble nature, Infatuation, from the charm of the object, Benevolence, from cordiality, Despair, from self-forgetfulness, Friendly nature, from love, And threat, from jealousy of the heart.
Nature is hard to deceive, But life is like the deceptive sea. Today - joy, tomorrow - pain, And that's why the thread of life breaks.
Love cursed by all is guilty. Whoever falls into his net suddenly loses his Courage, his mind, his freedom.
Annoyance knows no half measures.
Let the servant not allow himself to pour out the wine More skillfully than the master.
It is more pleasant than any reward To be able to serve the gentle people.
The dances, with their charm, In flight, in the elan of joy It makes them even more beautiful, And the ugly ones become pretty.
Those who have taken fate for granted, They must not worry about pride, but about duty.
He who loves, but when parting He cannot overcome his jealousy, He does not know what love is, because Where there is no humility, there is no place for love.
Respecting women is a duty that every virtuous man must obey from birth.
For women, experience shows, Health and beauty are inseparable.
Respect calls everywhere Good will and trust, And foolish smugness - Is the way to ill will and enmity.
Birth does not add or take away from man's merits, because it does not depend on his will, but man himself is responsible for his deeds, both good and bad.
The more difficulties there are in the battle, the more beautiful the victory will be.
...Someone else's secret is more tormenting than any disorder!
The lie whispers, the gossip whispers, And the truth shouts.
Conversing with the writers of other ages is the same as traveling.
In philosophy, concerning which all admit that it is not yet sufficiently investigated by men, and may yet be enriched with many wonderful discoveries, there is no praise more worthy than that of being an innovator.
Remarkable men consider that there is no greater evil than the cowardice of those who cannot bear misfortune strongly, and though they dislike vices, they do not dislike those who indulge in such vices, but only pity them.
All sciences are so interrelated that it is easier to study them all at once than one of them separately from the others. The musings of the sages can be reduced to a very small number of general rules.
Of two human passions - love and hate - a greater inclination towards the extreme manifests precisely love. She is more fiery and, stronger and more durable. The more passionately love burns, the more merciless it is to all that stands in its way and threatens it, it gives hate freedom to act in more than one direction, and thereby frees it from slavery innumerable evils; that it was only love that gave birth to those seeds of evil from which eventually arose the fire set on Troy.
The true greatness of the soul, which entitles man to self-respect, consists more in the awareness that there is nothing more rightfully his than that he disposes of his own desires.
People with a strong or generous character do not change their mood according to personal prosperity or misfortune.
Wisdom means not only prudence in practical matters, but also a perfect knowledge of what man is capable of knowing.
Hope represents the tendency of the soul to convince itself that the desired will come true. And fear is the inclination of the soul that convinces itself that the desire will not come true.
Don't wish for anything you can't achieve yourself; your ultimate achievement is freedom. She cannot make you beautiful, rich, respected, strong and happy in the eyes of the whole world, she can only make you free. It does not make you master of things, but master of yourself.
There is no activity more fertile than self-knowledge.
Reason is like a lens, with which you light the fire and which, although it gets hot, remains cold.
Always aim to conquer yourself rather than fate and change your own desires rather than the order of the world. Shame is a form of sadness based on self-love that occurs out of fear of condemnation from others.