Sometimes human places, create inhuman monsters.
Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.
How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
People who are not blessed with the ability to make others laugh compensate for that by saying (or trying to say) things that are profound.
Pick the day. Enjoy it - to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come... The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present - and I don't want to spoil any of it by fretting about the fu...
The moon will guide you through the night with her brightness, but she will always dwell in the darkness, in order to be seen.
Love feeds on deception.
A man might share his wealth, but never his authority.
Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.
Colors are what trick the mind and our imaginations into buying things.
Shame and blame should have no place in our body, mind, or spirit.