For most men the love of justice is only the fear of suffering injustice.

Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.

All women are flirts, but some are restrained by shyness, and others by sense.

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.

When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.

Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.

Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.

Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with.

There are no accidents so unlucky from which clever people are not able to reap some advantage, and none so lucky that the foolish are not able to turn them to their own disadvantage.

To enjoy true, vibrant health, increased awareness, effort, and focus are required.

I do not trust those who make the vaccines, or the apparatus behind it all to push it on us through fear.

The end point of rationality is to demonstrate the limits of rationality.

Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.

Two tasks at the beginning of your life: to narrow your orbit more and more, and ever and again to check whether you are not in hiding somewhere outside your orbit.

The slothful is the servant of the counters.

I allowed myself to be taken in by the intellectuals. I believed too much in the Polish intellectuals and followed their advice.

It's kind of OK to be a little bit weird.

It was around 4 p.m. in the afternoon. I was just taking a nap. Luckily, my sister was home.

As long as the wrong people hold power, how can the right political climate even arise?