Considering our greatest anguish as an unimportant incident, not only in the life of the universe but of our own soul, is the beginning of wisdom.
The art of pleasing consists of being pleased.
William Hazlitt
Here we don't talk about anyone, here we pray for someone.
Nazareth
You are a special friend... you help me grow when you exalt my qualities, making me proud of them, when you extract, bring out the best in me, omit...
Unknown
Those who have the gift of speech and are orators have in their hands a great instrument of charlatanism: they are happy if they do not abuse it.
Charles Saint-Beuve
Democracy is like the gardener's scissors, which cut back to equalize; mediocrity is its element.
Marquis of Maricá