At times, our strengths propel us so far forward we can no longer endure our weaknesses and perish from them.

Faith is the path of least resistance.

We must be cruel as well as compassionate: let us guard against becoming poorer than nature is!

Pity is the most agreeable feeling among those who have little pride and no prospects of great conquests.

Mozart, the last chord of a centuries-old great European taste.

However much we may feel for the misery of someone close to us, we always act with some artificiality in their presence. We hold-back from telling them everything we think, often because we do not genuinely mean what we say; or because we take a pleasure in their plight, thankful that we are not affected.

The strongest have their moments of fatigue.