Though my sight be lost, I do not yet lose my faith: when I can no longer see, I can still believe.
It needs as much generosity to take as to give.
The greatest pleasures of love are inseparable from its greatest pains: Love has the face of a goddess, but the talons of a lion.
The wealthy seldom possess wealth: oftener they are possessed by it.
Of the future, man knows least; yet, about this, he worries most.
However bad a man, he will have some friends: however good, he will have some enemies.