Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
Now we were descending just as steeply.
We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.
We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.