As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in the present.

You can make the best of it and be content, or you can complain, it makes no difference. What does it matter that human beings judge the things that exist?

It is fair to despise a cowardly man, but the female sex is strongest when it's weak.

A man may welcome his beloved with circumstance, but a woman's love and her concern for his well-being are discreet.

Just as the queen bee, the highest-ranking, peerless creature of her hive, is surrounded by lowly drones to please her, whereas the workers produce honey, the same way is the one who sits on the throne an equal only to himself, and no one's companion.

I'd wish the government took honest people into consideration, it shows enough consideration for scoundrels.

Mankind is getting smarter every day. Actually, it only seems so. At least we are making progress. We're progressing, to be sure, ever more deeply into the forest.