Beauty without colour seems somehow to belong to another world.
Intimacy between stepchildren and stepparents is indeed proverbially difficult.
Though the body moves, the soul may stay behind.
Foolish indeed are those who trust to fortune.
In few people is discretion stronger than the desire to tell a good story.
Old age is a disease from which there is no recovery but the old nun's recent attack had certainly been brought on chiefly by the fatigue of so much travelling.