Entendia que há larga ponderação de males e bens, e que a arte de viver consiste em tirar o maior bem do maior mal. - Machado de Assis

A melhor definição do amor não vale um beijo de moça namorada.

Man is...a thinking erratum, that's what he is. Every season of life is an edition that corrects the one before and which will also be corrected itself until the definitive edition, which the publisher gives to the worms gratis.

How many wicked intentions climb aboard a pure and innocent phrase, after it is already on its way! It is enough to make one suspect that lying is, many a time, as involuntary as breathing.