Thou canst not serve both cod and salmon.
an optimist is the man who looks after your eyes, and the pessimist the person who looks after your feet.
Most people would far rather be seen through than not be seen at all.
Everything comes to the man who won't wait.
As a rule the person found out in a betrayal of love holds, all the same, the superior position of the two. It is the betrayed one who is humiliated.
There is, of course, no joy so great as the cessation of pain; in fact all joy, active or passive, is the cessation of some pain, since it must be the satisfaction of a longing, even perhaps an unconscious longing.