“The fiercest anger of all, the most incurable,Is that which rages in the place of dearest love.”

“Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.”

“Anger exceeding limits causes fear and excessive kindness eliminates respect.”

“I understand too well the dreadful actI'm going to commit, but my judgementcan't check my anger, and that incitesthe greatest evils human beings do.”

“Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm; great good fortune comes to failure in the end. All is change; all yields its place and goes; to persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man. The coward despairs.”

“Surely, of all creatures that have life and will, we women are the most wretched. When, for an extravagant sum, we have bought a husband, we must then accept him as possessor of our body.”

“Friends show their love in times of trouble.”