But what can be done, the one who loves must share the fate of the one he loves.
Even God cannot change the past.
Of this alone, even god is deprived, the power of making things that are past never to have been.
The improvement of the mind improves the heart and corrects the understanding.
Every ruler must remember three things. Firstly, that he rules man; secondly, that he rules according to law, and thirdly, that he does not rule for ever.
This only is denied even to God: the power to undo the past.
There are some vile and contemptible men who, allowing themselves to be conquered by misfortune, seek a refuge in death.
It seems like only yesterday that savers were dorks. They kept piggy banks. They drove last year's cars. They fished in their change purses for nickels while the superstars flashed credit cards. Today, values have changed. The new object of veneration is not money on the hoof but money in the bank - and the dorks all have it.
I never looked at my parents' marriage or really anyone who had been married more than 30 years and thought, 'I gotta get me some of that!'
Think of me getting up before 6, I'm at work by 7 and I continue until 6. 30 in the evening, standing up all the time, nine canvases. It's murderous.
We can't encourage narrow mindedness, for no nation can be great whose people are narrow in thought.