Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what's left tastes bitter.
The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
I don't know what a man is. Only that every man has his price.
In the contradiction lies the hope.
The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can't do it all by themselves.