Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
I am lost if I attempt to take count of chronology. When I think over the past, I am like a person whose eyes cannot properly measure distances and is liable to think things extremely remote which on examination prove to be quite near.
I do not love men: I love what devours them.
Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
Woe to these people who have no appetite for the very dish that their age serves up.
Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.