Sexes. One has the look of a wound, the other of something skinned.
Life is a country that the old have seen, and lived in. Those who have to travel through it can only learn from them.
If you would live happily, do not exaggerate life's evils, nor slight her blessings.
Without duty, life is sort of boneless; it cannot hold itself together.
When a nation gives birth to a man who is able to produce a great thought, another is born who is able to understand and admire it.
How many people eat, drink, and get married; buy, sell, and build; make contracts and attend to their fortune; have friends and enemies, pleasures and pains, are born, grow up, live and die - but asleep!