It's true that nothing in this world makes us so necessary to others as the affection we have for them.
He alone deserves liberty and life who daily must win them anew.
Thought expands, but paralyzes; action animates, but narrows.
After fifteen minutes nobody looks at a rainbow.
These auspicious aspects, which the astrologers subsequently interpreted for me, may have been the causes of my preservation.
We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.