Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than tolerated.
The orator is the mouth (os) of a nation.
What is experience? A poor little hut constructed from the ruins of the palace of gold and marble called our illusions.
Our experience is composed rather of illusions lost than of wisdom acquired.
God is a shower to the heart burned up with grief; God is a sun to the face deluged with tears.
Have friends, not for the sake of receiving, but of giving.