Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.
When a history book contains no lies it is always tedious.
Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.
Irony and pity are two good counselors: one, in smiling, makes life pleasurable; the other, who cries, makes it sacred.
Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.
What we call strategy is mainly just crossing rivers on bridges and passing mountains though cols.