Stating that our successes are due to Providence and not to skill is just another cunning move to increase, in our eyes, the importance of these successes.
A good cause fears no judge.
Publius Siro
Water has a divine, grand meaning. It falls on the dry land, bringing life, washing the leaves of the trees, leaving everything green, clean. The rain...
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Wise men speak little and say a lot, generalizing and abstracting they summarize everything.
Marquis of Maricá
Friendship between two women is a rare plant, which generally lives a short life.
Paolo Mantegazza
There are people who don't think about what they should do, but about what they have already done; as if Reason had eyes behind and could only see what was left behind.
Henry Fielding