Your wealth is where your friends are

As long as she is wise and good, a girl has sufficient dowry.

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.

I have taken a wife, I have sold my sovereignty for a dowry. [Lat., Uxorem accepi, dote imperium vendidi.]

You love a nothing when you love an ingrate.

Where there are friends there is wealth.

Spice a dish with love and it pleases every palate.

Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

Good merchandise, even hidden, soon finds buyers.

Things we do not expect, happen more frequently than we wish.

There's no such thing, you know, as picking out the best woman: it's only a question of comparative badness, brother.

She looked defeated, a castle stormed, torn down, with no one living inside. She looked like a hollowed-out creature, only shell and no soul.

Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.

The fact that we die, that makes life important. It's hard to take, but it's the truth.

After the modest success of my first film, I found it very daunting to have to live with that kind of burden of expectations.

It's the way life is, I suppose. Whatever happens, you deal with it.

Her beauty climbed the rolling slope, it came into the room, rustling ghost-like through the curtains.

Foreign languages are another favourite topic, and as these men are bilingual they have a fair notion of what it means to speak and think in many different idioms.

I'm absolutely confident that the God that I worship abhors violence.

I learned from teaching. If you are perceived by the student to be belittling them or purely criticizing them without offering up words of encouragement and support, they shut down and discredit you.