Compassion is the chief law of human existence.
The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
Who doesn't desire his fathers death?
Love children especially, for they too are sinless like the angels; they live to soften and purify our hearts and, as it were, to guide us.
... you can never be sure of what has passed between husband and wife or lover and mistress.
They have this social justification for every nasty thing they do!