The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.
One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
Everyone is born a king, and most people die in exile.
Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding.
To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.