It is not enough to be a hardworking person. Think: what do you work at?
Perhaps it is even more important to know what one should not think about than what one should think about.
Are we not all flung into the world for no other purpose than to hate each other, and so to torture ourselves and one another?
We call beauty that which supplies us with a particular pleasure.
Upon meeting, you're judged by your clothes, upon parting you're judged by your wits.
He looked at her as a man might look at a faded flower he had plucked, in which it was difficult for him to trace the beauty that had made him pick and so destroy it