What you did for the woman, she can forget, but she will never forget what you didn't do for her.
black and turbulent, the winter sea portends heartbreak
Eugénia Tabosa
Everything tires the hope of the men most faithful to the cult of reason.
Madame de Staël
Equality may be a right, but there is no power on Earth capable of making it a fact.
Honoré de Balzac
We constantly do things because others do them.
(A. Manzoni)
Pleasure may rest on illusion, but happiness rests on reality.
Sébastien-Roch Chamfort