When we expand the field of knowledge, we only increase the horizon of ignorance.
I can sympathize with a person's pain, but not their pleasures. There is something strictly monotonous about the happiness of others.
Aldous Huxley
Come back soon, come back, I'm so suffering, like a naked boy, feeling that the world has left me meaningless, feeling the taste of heartbreak and desire, like...
Paulo Master
It is through our self-love that love seduces us. How can we resist a feeling that beautifies what we have, that gives us back what we lost and gives us what we don't have...
Sébastien-Roch Chamfort
Not even the gods fight against destiny.
Pittacus
And one could in a long speech show how the fruits of poverty are better than those of wealth and how one has brought honor to cities, provinces and...
Machiavelli