For the credit of virtue we must admit that the greatest misfortunes of men are those into which they fall through their crimes.

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.

Time should be reproduced and multiplied

The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.

Ignorance is a virus. Once it starts spreading, it can only be cured by reason. For the sake of humanity, we must be that cure.

The Constitution is a document that should only be amended with great caution.

I believe that the development of language - of naming, categorization, conceptualization - destroys our ability to see as we age.

The quarterback's spending so much time behind the center that he may jeopardize his right to lead a Boy Scout troop.

I would be screwed if I got hurt on my motorcycle and couldn't wrestle.

You've done the bourgeois thing, perhaps, but let's not call that love.

She understood his passion because she felt the same way: as if nothing was more important than the touch of her skin to his, as if she'd die if he left her.

Decrements in attention and concentration, being able to learn more efficiently, that's just not as good. Also, there are motor vehicle accidents, workplace accidents, we see that a lot.