Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.
Simplicity, a delicate silence about oneself, increases their worth and makes one love those whom one admires.
The more you lose the right to be jealous, the more so you become!
Our work can never be better than we are ourselves.
... what is there over which the incomparable beauty of childhood would not triumph?
When I tried to draw near, you dissolved into air before my lips could touch you...