When Fortune comes, seize her in front with a sure hand, because behind she is bald.
The fox when it sees a flock of herons or magpies or birds of that kind, suddenly flings himself on the ground with his mouth open to look as he were dead; and these birds want to peck at his tongue, and he bites off their heads.
...The world wouldn't be the world, without trouble.
Savage is he who saves himself.
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.