Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.

To make a perfume, take some rose water and wash your hands in it, then take a lavender flower and rub it with your palms, and you will achieve the desired effect

Poor is the man who desires a lot

Wood feeds the fire which burns it.

The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.

Nothing comes out of nothing.