No one will stop to help you when you are in need, but everyone forces opinions upon you that you do not require.

There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son.

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.

Chance arrives unannounced. It emerges, and when it leaves, we are lucky if the changes it has produced are only external.

In certain countries, people seem to be think that three asses together make one intelligent person. However, that is completely wrong. Several asses in concreto make the ass in abstracto and that is a most terrifying animal.

The state has no religion for the simple reason that it has each and everyone.

Do you call the jewel blind, because your eye is?