Accustomed to a total darkness we could only fear the sun

We can find no success greater than our most miserable failure

Death cannot even visit where no life is to be found

Even when none are beautiful we still choose the fairest from them all

Where all are obese, the least heavy is deemed to be quite thin

Our greatest victory always implies their equally agonizing loss

We can be no more uplifted than we have already been debased

If I can love with all my heart so can I hate with all my soul

If there existed no humility neither would we witness excess pride

The deeper my laughter the more rending could be my tears

Without knowing any sorrow, how much joy could we really feel?

Without such sickness they do not appreciate their better health so much

If most are blind, those who see even blurry shapes are deemed true visionaries

If war is our natural state then our peace must still be full of strife

The biggest lies always somehow ring with some tinge of truth

I would not recognize the greedy were I not raised by the generous

Water only satisfies us to the degree of our thirst

They love best the rain those who have been through the entire drought

They will not call out the evil if they do not know the good

To appreciate such a spring as this you must have been here for the winter

The instant of creation ensures an absolute and certain death

Small as we are, we view some among us as true giants

Little satisfaction comes without enduring some long-held desire

If all we ever heard was music, what would we think of this piercing noise?

Accustomed to a total darkness we could only fear the sun

No one knows an old thing if they have never seen the new

One knows not what it means to take if they haven’t been taken from

He does not know he hurts someone if he feels no pain himself

I did not know I had always felt bad until I grew a little better

A different future cannot be crafted should we choose to ignore the past