Sacrificing the earth for paradise is giving up the substance for the shadow.
A woman's best qualities are harmful if undiluted with prudence.
People weighed down with troubles do not look back; they know only too well that misfortune stalks them.
No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.
There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering--a hell of boredom.
We would be ashamed of our best behavior if the people knew the motives of our behaving so.