There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.