The friendship that can cease has never been real.

For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.

They talk like angels but they live like men.

The fact is that my native land is a prey to barbarism, that in it men's only God is their belly, that they live only for the present, and that the richer a man is the holier he is held to be.

Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse.

If there is but little water in the stream, it is the fault, not of the channel, but of the source.

When I could not see the light with my blind eyes, I blamed not my eyes, but the sun.