It is up to us to cultivate our garden.
Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.
It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.
We should be considerate to the living; to the dead we owe only the truth.
He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.
What! Have you no monks to teach, to dispute, to govern, to intrigue and to burn people who do not agree with them?