We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!
True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you!
Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.
Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.