A friar who asks alms for God's sake begs for two..

The fox is very cunning, but he is more cunning who catches the fox..

All must yield to the weight of years; conquest is not difficult for time..

To the King, one must give his possessions and his life; but honour is a possession of soul, and the soul is only God's..

How surely a knowledge of the world hardens the heart!.

Our treasures trifles seem, and all our life is dreaming, and the dreams themselves are dreams..

All just laws condemn cruelty..

One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it..

Never confide your secrets to paper; it is like throwing a stone in the air; and if you know who throws the stone, you do not know where it may fall..

These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, sleeping in the cold….

No windows give a better view than those a man brings with him in his head, not asking for tickets of admission, since at all functions, festivals, o….

Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises..

What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish, a beast, a bird?.

All life is a dream, and all dreams are dreams..

Great events have sent before them their announcements..

If a pretty woman only knew how anger improved her beauty! Her complexion needs no other paint than indignation..

Speak no evil of women; I tell thee the meanest of them deserves respect; for of women do we not all come?.

In this treacherous world Nothing is the truth nor a lie. Everything depends on the color Of the crystal through which one sees it.

The heart is an astrologer that always divines the truth..

For man's greatest crime is to have been born..

When love is not madness, it is not love..