That you may please others you must be forgetful of yourself.
What is more useful than fire? Yet if any one prepares to burn a house, it is with fire that he arms his daring hands.
Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.
If God be my friend, I cannot be wretched.
The burden becomes light that is shared by love.
That's one of the greatest curses ever inflicted on the human race, memory.