Having a talent is not enough: one must also have your permission to have it--right, my friends?

We ought to fear a man who hates himself, for we are at risk of becoming victims of his anger and revenge. Let us then try to lure him into self-love.

Happiness is a fata morgana. the only way to not end up unhappy is to not long for happiness.

Has a woman who knew she was well-dressed ever caught a cold?

One must be a sea, to receive a polluted stream without becoming impure.

As soon as we are shown the existence of something old in a new thing, we are pacified.

The living is merely a type of what is dead, and a very rare type.