Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.
The scars of others should teach us caution.
Virginity can be lost by a thought.
Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a be general natural law.
The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.
Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
The friendship that can cease has never been real.
True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
Action without a name, a 'who' attached to it, is meaningless.
Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
Why do you not practice what you preach.
Someone may ask, 'How is justice greater than all the other virtues?' The other virtues gratify the one who possesses them; justice does not give pleasure to the one possessing it, but instead pleases others.
Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
Haste is of the Devil.
Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!
I am like the sick sheep that strays from the rest of the flock. Unless the Good Shepherd takes me on His shoulders and carries me back to His fold, my steps will falter, and in the very effort of rising, my feet will give way.
Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most.
It is not enough for us to restrain from doing evil, unless we shall also do good.
