Too chaste an adolescence makes for a dissolute old age. It is doubtless easier to give up something one has known than something one imagines.
The great artist is one whom constraint exalts, for whom the obstacle is a springboard.
Faith can move mountains; true: mountains of stupidity.
Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.
Though a revolution may call itself "national," it always marks the victory of a single party.
Not everyone can be an orphan.