it is obvious that all vices have a grievous effect on those who indulge them and often on others too. But I believe that the one which can transport us with the most unbridled haste into danger is anger. This is nothing other than a sudden thoughtless impulse, provoked by some perceived offence, which banishes reason and clouds the eyes of the mind, rousing the soul to blazing fury.

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Heaven would indeed be heaven if lovers were there permitted as much enjoyment as they had experienced on earth.

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Mejor estaría con diablos: de siete veces seis no saben lo que ellas mismas quieren.

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Wrongs committed in the distant past are far easier to condemn than to rectify.

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They brought it to a common saying there that the most acceptable service one could render to God was to put the devil in Hell.

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In the affairs of this world, poverty alone is without envy.

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No-thing less splendid than a golden sepulchre would have suited so noble a heart.

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Let this grisly beginning be none other to you than is to wayfarers a rugged and steep mountain.

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Do as we say, and not as we do.

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The scholar, as wise as he was full of wrath, knowing that threats only serve as weapons to the person so threatened, kept all his resentment within his own breast.

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