Poems List
A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart.
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A man who permits his honor to be taken, permits his life to be taken.
Age has a good mind and sorry shanks.
Anger represents a certain power, when a great mind, prevented from executing its own generous desires, is moved by it.
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Desire is poison at lunch and wormwood at dinner; your bed is a stone, friendship is hateful and your fancy is always fixed on one thing.
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Flee laziness, which, while it produces an immediate delight, ends in the sorrow of repentance. And know that nature without exercise is a see 1 shut up in the pod, and art without practice is nothing.
I am, / indeed, / a king, because I know how to rule myself.
I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.
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I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.
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Learning is the property of those who fear to do disagreeable things.
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