Gabriel

“If men only knew the staleness of the freshest of us! that nine times out of ten the "first love" they think they are winning from a woman is but the hulk of an old wrecked affection, fitted with new sails and re-used.”
― Thomas Hardy, Desperate Remedies

“The happiest lot is not to have experienced the keenest delights or the greatest pleasures, but to have brought life to a close without any very great pain, bodily or mental.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Counsels and Maxims

“To give too much room to the latent feeling which is rather common in these days among the unappreciated, that because some remarkably successful men are fools, all remarkably unsuccessful men are geniuses.' 'Pretty”
― Thomas Hardy, Desperate Remedies

“—Han sido legiones los que se han preguntado si Cristo rió. El asunto no me interesa demasiado. Creo que nunca rió porque, como hijo de Dios, era omnisciente y sabía lo que haríamos los cristianos.”
― Umberto Eco, El nombre de la rosa