If only we could lean over the soul we love and see as in a mirror the image we cast!
To love the truth is to refuse to let oneself be saddened by it.
The belief that becomes truth for me... is that which allows me the best use of my strength, the best means of putting my virtues into action.
It is not becoming to lay to virtue the weariness of old age.
I prefer granting with a good grace what I know I shan't be able to prevent.
Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.