We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us. 660
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. 753
Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey. 1.87K
It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body. 647
