When I could not see the light with my blind eyes, I blamed not my eyes, but the sun.
Nothing is hard for lovers, no labor is difficult for those who wish it.
Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them.
To read without writing is to sleep.
Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse.
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.