Who timidly requests invites refusal.
Do you desire not to be angry? Be not inquisitive. He who inquires what is said of him only works out his own misery.
We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
The artist finds a greater pleasure in painting than in having completed the picture.
The evil which assails us is not in the localities we inhabit but in ourselves.
To make a commencement requires a mental effort.