It's hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know you would lie if you were in his position.
Old people distrust youth because they were young.
William Shakespeare
There is a certain shame in being happy in the face of certain miseries.
Jean de La Bruyère
Poverty lacks many things, greed lacks everything.
Publius Siro
Earthly happiness is incomplete, but it can be true in order to achieve the ultimate end.
Thomas Aquinas
I have brothers, a father, but I don't have a mother. If you don't have a mother, you don't have a family.
Plato