By the work one knows the workman.

It is impossible to please all the world and one's father.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.

Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.

The strongest passion is fear.

We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.