The wise man is he who knows when and how to stop
God has bestowed two gifts on man: hope and ignorance. Ignorance is the better of the two.
Take all reasonable advantage of that which the present may offer you. It is the only time which is ours. Yesterday is buried forever, and to-morrow we may never see.
I was dying when you came.
Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.
One of the hardest labours of the just man is to expunge from his soul a malevolence which it is difficult to efface.