Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.

Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.

I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence.

Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.

It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what is in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with.