“Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.”

“Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it: nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.”

“Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.”

“A menudo encontramos nuestro destino por los caminos que tomamos para evitarlo.”

“A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.”

“Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.”

“Apprenez que tout flatteurVit aux dépens de celui qui l'écoute :Cette leçon vaut bien un fromage, sans doute.Flatterers thrive on fools' credulity.The lesson's worth a cheese, don't you agree?”