You can get friction for nothing, but harmony costs courtesy and self-control. The graveyards are full of people the world could not do without. A man with all the time there is to do a task is like a cigarette smoker who can quit anytime. Mankind can be released from the power of weakness only by slow degrees. Poetry is a substitute for the impossible.
Sympathy is the first attribute of love as well as the last.
The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is the process of elimination. To return to the Epigram Guide Webpage.