“Nem meus amigos, que me ajudaram muito, como o JK, entendiam. As pessoas viam os projetos e diziam: 'Que bonito!”

Je veux être un homme de bien ; n'est-ce pas là un beau projet ?
L’Île des esclaves, Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux, éd. Hachette Éducation, 2003 (ISBN 2-01-168696-2), acte I, scène 10, p. 109

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, beautiful old people are works of art.
citado em "The New Love and Sex After 60", Robert N. Butler, Myrna I. Lewis - Ballantine Books, 2002, ISBN 0345442113, 9780345442116 - 380 páginas
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Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature—it requires, in fact, the nature of a true Individualist—to sympathise with a friend's success.
De profundis, from the original, unexpurgated German ed., tr. by Henry Zick - página 179, Oscar Wilde, ‎Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, ‎Lady Wilde - A. R. Keller & Company, Incorporated, 1907

宰 予 晝 寢 。 子 曰 ： 「 朽 木 不 可 雕 也 ， 糞 土 之 牆 不 可 朽 也 。 於 予 與 何 誅 ？ 」