The reward for a thing well done is having done it.
Happiness is a masterpiece: the slightest error distorts it, the slightest hesitation alters it, the slightest lack of delicacy undoes it, the slightest foolishness brutalizes it.
Marguerite Yourcenar
Evil is not to be understood, but to be fought.
Leonardo Boff
Wanting to prevent ordinary contingent evils, the prudent man always lives in torture, enjoying less in the present than he suffers in the future.
Marquis of Maricá
Those who never lose sight of the enemy are protected from the need to discover weaknesses and weaknesses that manifest themselves in their own field.
Manès Sperber
To despair in misfortune is to be unaware that evils border on good things, and that they alternate or transform.
Marquis of Maricá