They Think They're Normal, Because

Does A Soldier Go To War In Order To Kill The Enemy? No, He Goes In Order To Die For His Country. Does A Wife Want To Show Her Husband How Happy She Is? No, She Wants Him To See How She Suffers In Order To Make Him Happy Does The Husband Go To Work Thinking He Will Find Personal Fulfillment There? No, He Is Giving His Sweat And Tears For The Good Of The Family And So It Goes On: Sons Give Up Their Dreams To Please Their Parents, Parents Give Up Their Lives In Order To Please Their Children; Pain And Suffering Are Used To Justify The One Thing That Should Bring Only Love.

What People Regard As Vanity—leaving Great Works, Having Children, Acting In Such A Way As To Prevent One's Name From Being Forgotten—i Regard As The Highest Expression Of Human Dignity.

Love Can Consign Us To Hell Or To Paradise, But It Always Takes Us Somewhere.

We All, At Some Point, Grow Old And Acquire Other Qualities, And These Can Always Be Turned To Good Advantage.

Everyone Seems To Have A Clear Idea Of How Other People Should Lead Their Lives, But None About His Or Her Own.