Shadow

"Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing."

"There is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night."

"Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine."

"A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines."

"Like a shadow, I am and I am not."

"Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see."

"Keep your face to the sun and you will never see the shadows."

"A light here required a shadow there."

"If a man speak or act with a good thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him."

"Indeed I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do."

"Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings -- always darker, emptier and simpler."

"I feel all shadows of the universe multiplied deep inside my skin."