The art of using moderate abilities to advantage often brings greater results than actual brilliance

When you plant a seed of love, it is you that blossoms. Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati The 11 Karmic Spaces: Choosing Freedom from the Patterns That Bind You There are two kinds of faithfulness in love: one is based on forever finding new things to love in the loved one; the other is based on our pride in being faithful.

Solemnity is a device of the body to hide the faults of the mind.

Fortune turns all things to the advantage of those on whom she smiles.

Nothing is rarer than true good nature; they who are reputed to have it are generally only pliant or weak.

Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

Nothing ought in reason to mortify our self-satisfaction more that the considering that we condemn at one time what we highly approve and commend at another.