I will bring you a flower from the floor of the sea to wear in your hair.
We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
A man often imagines that he acts, when he is acted upon.
If we took as much pains to be what we ought, as we do to deceive others by disguising what we are; we might appear as we are, without being at the trouble of any disguise.
To be a great man it is necessary to know how to profit by the whole of our good fortune.
Jealousy is in some measure just and reasonable, since it merely aims at keeping something that belongs to us or we think belongsto us, whereas envy is a frenzy that cannot bear anything that belongs to others.
They who are to be judges must also be performers.
Yes! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone.
China will have the biggest aging crisis that the world has ever seen over the next generation, and this happens at a time when Chinese ambitions, geopolitically speaking, are expanding.
I don't live that much with the character. I find it hard enough having to spend so many hours with the character during the day.