The truth is, bad things don't affect us as profoundly as we expect them to. That's true of good things, too. We adapt very quickly to either.

Secanja su previse bitna.
Bila dobra ili losa, pamtite ih.

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.

Unfortunately, we have a tendency to see figures from the past as caricatures - either all good or all bad - when the truth is always much more complex.

Variety improves the things that we do too often, but it rules the things that we don't do often enough.