The worst of all superstitions may be that astrology is a superstition.
Life is painful to be meaningful.
Nature, by its very nature, is very brutal and unequal. However, Man has somehow managed to transform the nature of its brutality and inequality.
Pain is a poison; pleasure an intoxicant.
Passion is the soul of youth.
He is man whose heart is spirited and eyes are wet each moment on account of the sorrow, compassion, virtue, beauty, and nobility that decorate this world.