“The discipline of desire is the background of character.”

“All things deteriorate in time.”

“What each man feared would happen to himself, did not trouble him when he saw that it would ruin another.”

“Fate will find a way.”

“The medicine increases the disease.”

“If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.”

“Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.”