People with a meagre soul always try to make others feel small too.

Never trust girls who let themselves be touched right away. But even less those who need a priest for approval.

They (fables) teach us that human beings learn and absorb ideas and concepts through narrative, through stories, not through lessons or theoretical speeches.

Waiting is the rust of the soul.

Nobody had noticed, nobody had paid attention, but, as usual, the essential part of the matter had been settled before the story had begun, and by then it was too late.

The most efficient way of rendering the poor harmless is to teach them to want to imitate the rich.

People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough.