Taxes are a universal burden in moral as well as in civil life. There is not a pleasure, social or otherwise, which is not assessed by fate at its full value!
The only truth is love beyond reason.
I cannot help it - in spite of myself, infinity torments me.
In love matters; keep your pen from paper.
It is easy to promise, and alas! How easy to forget!
... but one loves, and when one is on the brink of death, one turns around to look backward, and one says to oneself: "I have often suffered, I have sometimes been wrong, but I have loved.