Exceptions are not always the proof of the old rule; they can also be the harbinger of a new one.
Do not fear the ones who argue, but rather those who are evasive.
Conquer but never triumph.
You can sink so fast that you think you are flying.
There are women who love their husbands as blindly, as enthusiastically, and as enigmatically as nuns their cloister.
Passion is always suffering, even when gratified.