Those with certain temperaments find no way to endure themselves except by striving towards going under.

What we know oman today is limited precisely by the extent to which we have regarded him as a machine.

At the beginning of a marriage ask yourself whether this woman will be interesting to talk to from now until old age. Everything else in marriage is transitory: most of the time is spent in conversation.

A real fox calls sour not only those grapes that he cannot reach but also those that he has reached and taken away from others.

Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn't.

About sacrifice and the offering of sacrifices, sacrificial animals think quite differently from those who look on: but they have never been allowed to have their say.

We count the courtesies accorded us by unpopular people as offenses.