There is no one who does not make mistakes, and great men make great mistakes.
The meaning of being and feeling pleasure, whatever it may be, leisure in taste and in love, as long as it is achieved with pleasure
epicurus
It is not always because of valor and chastity that men are valuable and women are chaste.
Francois La Rochefoucauld
Only those who haven't looked into anything have convictions.
Emil Cioran
Some men rise through light like vapors and gases, others like projectiles through the force of ingenuity and talent.
Marquis of Maricá
Those who have never suffered know nothing; they know neither good nor evil; they ignore men; they ignore themselves.
François Fénelon