"We come altogether fresh and raw into..." - Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“Jealously is always born with love but it does not die with it.”

“We should not be much concerned about faults we have the courage to own.”

“Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.”

“All fits of pleasure are balanced by an equal degree of pain or languor; it is like spending this year part of the next year's revenue.”

“Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.”

“Thus, in a middle course between these heights and depths, they drifted through life rather than lived, the prey of aimless days and sterile memories, like wandering shadows that could have acquired substance only by consenting to root themselves in the solid earth of their distress.”

“Every moment is utterly unique and will not be continued in eternity. This fact gives life its poignancy and should concentrate your attention on what you are experiencing now...that source of eternal energy is here, in you, now.”

“You have never been poor, and never known what ambition is.”

“Only the traveling is good which reveals to me the value of home and enables me to enjoy it better.”