I don’t care what people say about me. I do care about my mistakes.
The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world is to be in reality what we would appear to be.
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, is called love.