Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.
A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.
When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.
When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.