In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties. Parerga and Paralipomena
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
"That was something his parents did not understand very well; over the years, they had become convinced that this job would provide for Gregor for his entire life..." Metamorphosis and Other Stories
Like a ghostly roll of drums remorselessly beat the measure of life. To the Lighthouse
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