Hide your desires, melt your dreams.
This is how fate sometimes plays with mortals: Sometimes it takes them up, sometimes it throws them down. This is how the world is made that in happiness, sometimes, Misfortune is already included.
He who has lived in honor all his life, Can hardly endure shame.
Marriage and love are different paths: Marriage seeks gain, love - goodwill.
The science of driving is not found in books.
There is no greater suffering than loving passionately the one who will answer you with hate.
A brave man is true to his word.
The more the insult comes from a good man, the deeper it is.
Men have one honor, lovers have more! Love is easy to forget, but honor - you can't.
The pain of the other is not equal to the pain of your soul.
I am willing to bear any misfortune behind me, But I do not accept the honor of having to suffer.
How beautiful indulgence makes the hero!
Fear the wrath of the long-suffering man.
If you look hard, you will find something comforting in any situation.
In moments of hesitation, boldly follow the inner voice, if you hear it, even if nothing but this voice advises you to proceed as it dictates.
All our whining about what we don't have comes from insufficient gratitude for what we do have.
A good counselor can restore man to life, he instills courage in the weak and awakens in the human mind the capacity to act in the right way.
The misuse of material possessions is often a sure path to the greatest misfortunes.
To what absurd decisions fear leads man! Fear cancels the ability to dispose of those means that reason proposes to help us.
Not infrequently, nostalgia for a lost joy can overshadow all the other pleasures of the world.
Unhappy people have no friends.
It's never too late to wake up.
There's no shame in cheating the devil.
To be without friends is the worst misfortune after poverty.
The highest degree of human wisdom lies in the ability to adapt to circumstances and to maintain composure in the face of external threats.
Fear is a disease that weakens the soul, just as physical afflictions weaken the body. The fear of danger is a thousand times more terrible than the danger itself.
That's how human nature is made: we never really know what situation we are in until we experience a situation worse than the current one, and we never value the possessions we have until we lose them.
A thought well expressed sounds good in all languages.
Man is a less prudent creature, especially when he begins to claim that he is happy, or when he thinks that he can live as his mind dictates.
Man is not wise enough to be content with what he has.