If I advance, follow me! If I retreat, kill me! If I die, avenge me!

To safeguard one's health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness indeed.

Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.

Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.

The mind is always the patsy of the heart.

In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.