Humour is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue. The Common Reader
It needs to realize that what happens to everyone—bad and good alike—is neither good nor bad. (Hays translation) Book IV
When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused. The Alchemist
He is ungrateful who denies that he has received a kindness which has been bestowed upon him; he is ungrateful who conceals it; he is ungrateful who makes no return for it; most ungrateful of all is he who forgets it. De Beneficiis
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