“No one is more avidly curious about other people's doings than those persons whom they do not concern.”

“For prying into any human affairs, none are equal to those whom it does not concern.”

“There is no one for spying on people's actions like those who are not concerned in them”

“Do not ask the name of the person who asks you for a bed for a night. He whose name is a burden to him needs shelter more than any one.”

“One day of happiness is worth more than a lifetime of sorrow .... Under ordinary circumstances, jealousy is a suspicion to the person who excites it and degrading to the person who indulges it.”

“I was confided to your loyalty and accepted by your treason; you offer my death to those to whom you had promised my life. Do you know who it is you are destroying here? It is yourself.”

“Those who do not weep, do not see.”