Difficulty is what wakes up the genius.
A broken fortune is like a falling column; the lower it sinks, the greater weight it has to sustain.
Those presents are the most acceptable which are enhanced by our regard for the donor.
Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.
Very slight violence will break that which has once been cracked.
Like fragile ice anger passes away in time.