Virtue is persecuted by the wicked more than it is loved by the good. Don Quixote
‘No one but you and one ‘jade’ I have fallen in love with, to my ruin. But being in love doesn't mean loving. You may be in love with a woman and yet hate her. The Karamazov Brothers
Do not shorten the morning by getting up late, or waste it in unworthy occupations or in talk; look upon it as the quintessence of life, as to a certain extent sacred. Evening is like old age: we are languid, talkative, silly. Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death. Counsels and Maxims
This is what happens when you hurry through a maze; the faster you go, the worse you are entangled. Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium
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