Whoever places his trust into a system will soon be without a home. While you are building your third story, the two lower ones have already been dismantled.

Do old people always live in the past? What yesterday was firm and true, may not be so today.

Plato calls complacency the companion of loneliness.

I know how ingratitude burns, how falsehood tortures, for I have been deceived in friendship and in love; I have learned to lose and to resign myself.

Man lives two lives, woe, were it otherwise! One is seized by death, the other one, his honor, remains.

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.

Since love is folly, a foolish woman is more dangerous than a wise one.