"We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced." — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction.

I only see clearly what I remember.

We do not know what is really good or bad fortune.

O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.