Paradise endangered: garden snakes and mice are appearing in the shadowy corners of Dutch Old Master paintings.
All history and art are against us, but we still expect happiness in love.
Your flattery is as full of contempt as your insults were.
To postpone unpleasantness is human; to forget it is divine.
Thought enables us to see Fate coming.
Alone, lonely people talk to themselves. In company, they often continue.