Jealousy is a grievous passion that jealously seeks what causes grief.

Why does the past look so enticing to us? For the same reason why from a distance a meadow with flowers looks like a flower bed.

What are the characteristics of today's world so that one may recognize it by them?" It pays pensions and borrows money: credit and monuments.

The office of the prince and that of the writer are defined and assigned as follows: the nobleman gives rank to the written work,the writer provides food for the prince.

Today is, after all, today, but yesterday is of the same substance as tomorrow.

The art of acting presupposes three phases: understanding a part, intuiting a part, and contemplating the essence of a part.

Soon there will be nothing truly profound that is not achieved by everyone, and of the difficult things in this world only one will be left: simplicity.