What a wonderful thing it is to have a good friend. He identifies your innermost desires and spares you the embarrassment of disclosing them to him yourself.
Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it: nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.
Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.
People must help one another it is nature's law.
Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
Rather suffer than die is man's motto.
Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
Man is so made that whenever anything fires his soul impossibilities vanish.