The greatest pleasures of love are inseparable from its greatest pains: Love has the face of a goddess, but the talons of a lion.
Doubt is the tax man pays for the luxury of useless knowledge.
Of the future, man knows least; yet, about this, he worries most.
To go into temptation to find how strong you are, is as wise as to go before a mirror, with closed eyes, to find how you look when asleep.
What we know is to what we do not know, as a grain of sand is to the beach.
The small charity that comes from the heart is better than the great charity that comes from the head.