Stefania

“Many things are not as they seem: The worst things in life never are.”
― Jim Butcher, White Night

“Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Very good laws may be ill timed.”
― Charles-Louis de Secondat, baron de la Brède et de Montesquieu

“There are two kinds of pity. One, the weak and sentimental kind, which is really no more than the heart's impatience to be rid as quickly as possible of the painful emotion aroused by the sight of another's unhappiness, that pity which is not compassion, but only an instinctive desire to fortify one's own soul agains the sufferings of another; and the other, the only one at counts, the unsentimental but creative kind, which knows what it is about and is determined to hold out, in patience and forbearance, to the very limit of its strength and even beyond.”
― Stefan Zweig, Beware of Pity