Out of monuments, names, words proverbs ...and the like, we do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand - and melting like a snowflake.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

All rising to great places is by a winding stair.

It's not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.

Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.

Life is a marshmallow, easy to chew but hard to swallow.

It took me a long time to realise that mothers are women who carry youAnd not necessarily in their womb.

False assurances were certainly more harmful than none at all.

The land is not old. It only changes, becoming one thing and the next. We are the ones who ascribe age, the brevity of our lives demanding a beginning, middle and end.

Every act, every deed of justice and mercy and benevolence, makes heavenly music in Heaven.

It'll only hurt for a second. Promise.

Politics is that rare sport where the amateur contest is actually more interesting than the professional.

There is never any turning back Gemma. You have to go forward. Make the future yours.

One can acquire some virtues by feigning them for a long time.

I was never a man of great ambition I cried too easily I didn't have a head for science Words often failed me While others prayed I only moved my lips

Artificial glamor-false eyelashes, that sort of thing-usually is put on to hide a vacuum. The most beautiful face can only look vacuous if it masks an empty head.