Let us mourn youth and old age too, because the first runs away and the second always comes.
The widow's tears lose their poetic bitterness from the moment the hand of love approaches to wipe them away.
Severo Catalina
Time is what man is always trying to kill, but which ends up killing him in the end.
Herbert Spencer
I don't want to be immortal for my work. Because if it were up to her, she would already be dead.
Ediel
A book displeases us in every way it resembles us.
Jules Renard
All oppressors attribute the frustration of their desires to the lack of sufficient rigor. Therefore they redouble the efforts of their impotent cruelty.
Edmund Burke