Sweet May lies fresh before us, To life the young flowers leap, And through the Heaven's blue o'er us The rosy cloudlets sweep.

Life is the greatest of blessings and death the worst of evils.... all great, powerful souls love life.

We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged

I take pride in never being rude to anyone on this earth, which contains a great number of unbearable villains who set upon you to recount their sufferings and even recite their poems.

While we are indifferent to our good qualities, we keep on deceiving ourselves in regard to our faults, until we come to look on them as virtues.

There are more fools in the world than there are people.

A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.