You have to be like the pebble in the stream, keeping the grain and rolling along without being dissolved or dissolving anything else.
He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.
National literature begins with fables and ends with novels.
Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.
Science confounds everything; it gives to the flowers an animal appetite, and takes away from even the plants their chastity.
TIME and truth are friends, though there are many moments hostile to truth.