Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.
Do you call the jewel blind, because your eye is?
Why do villains have so much influence? Because the honest people are terribly dense.
Two soldiers and a villain are enough to blow up the rights of the citizens.
You say I'm small? I certainly can relate, although it is a matter of perspective. The distance is deceptive, my friend, you standtoo low.
Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life's true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates.