Love, friendship, anger, generosity
Friendship is always advantageous, while love is sometimes injurious.
I made many enemies, and hate substitutes friendship, if there is friendship among the evil, and scarcely am I a friend to myself. I undertook the greatest of efforts to escape the crowd and make myself noted for some quality: what have I done if not offer myself as a target and show evil where it could hurt me?
If you wish to be loved, love.
We cannot avoid passion, but we can overcome it.
An unmeasured anger results in madness; for this reason one should avoid anger, not only to conserve one’s own dominion over himself, but his own health as well.
Evil drinks the greater portion of the poison it produces.
Never has fortune placed a man at such Heights that he did not need a friend.
Love cannot coexist with fear.
Who gives willingly gives twice.
When blood surges hate, it cannot be concealed.
Work as if you will live forever. Love as if you will die today.
Love cannot be defined; it is felt.
Women you either love or hate; with her there is no third hypothesis.
Do not care for the quantity, but for the quality of your friends.
I ask myself what has been my progress? I started by being a friend to myself.
There is no relish to me in the possessing of anything without a partner.