“The woman who has the best perfume is she who has none.”

Remind a man of what he remembers, and you will make him forget it.

It is much easier to begin than to end.

This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler.

It is only when we have lost them that we fully appreciate our blessings.

He who is most on his guard is often himself taken in.

I count him lost, who is lost to shame.

The day, water, sun, moon, night – I do not have to purchase these things with money.

No man is wise enough by himself.

Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

If you say hard things you must expect to hear them in return.

He that would eat the nut must crack the shell.

No man has perpetual good fortune.

It is customary these days to ignore what should be done in favour of what pleases us.

You have eaten a meal dangerously seasoned.

Your wealth is where your friends are.

To a well deserving person God will show favor. To an ill deserving person He will simply be just.

The kingdom of God is the true ecology of the human soul.

A person without a shadow should keep out of the sun, that is the only safe and rational plan.

Should the political process not work, there is always the other approach.

Comforters for our todays / Guardians of memories

Woman’s work as a listener is never done. …

Often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

The surest way to get a thing in this life is to be prepared for doing without it, to the exclusion even of hope.

Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.