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Excessive care is a curse of old age as carelessness is the bane of youth.

When you have no joy, the hope of a future joy is still called joy.

He who likes to be flattered himself becomes a flatterer.

The liar knows how to wear the mask of flattery.

The liar wears on his face all that his cunning heart has devised.

Love all, trust the chosen ones, do no harm to anyone.

Fashion wears more clothes than the man himself.

It is in the nature of youth to sin hastily.

Hope is a support for love: set out and arm yourself with it against the attacks of despair.

When apologizing, don't go to the same extreme as when you offend.

Often uninvited guests become pleasant when they leave.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness forced upon them.

Denial of one's gift is always a guarantee of talent.

Fish in the sea behave like people on land: the big eat the small.

Miserliness belongs to old age and love to youth.

Every madness has its logic.

Grinded by the suspicions of jealousy, you can easily accuse an innocent man.

The whole wealth of a maiden is her honour, more precious than any inheritance.

The cold-blooded man easily accuses another of too much passion.

The more bitter the past, the sweeter the present.

The fewer words, the more feeling.

The stronger the passion, the sadder its end.

In order to be able to properly appreciate someone's quality, you must also have a fragment of this quality in yourself.

Silly jokes are always funny.

I'm never sorry for doing good.

Where there is no fidelity, there is no love, no friendship, no virtue.

The disease of the jealous is so severe that it turns everything into food for it.

Marriage is characterized above all by the fact that, with it, the worship of idols ceases. When the man takes a closer look at his goddess, she becomes a mere woman again.

In face-to-face conversations between close friends, the wisest people very often make the weakest judgments, because talking to a friend is like thinking out loud.

There is nothing in the world more illusory than what we call "zeal."