In every trouble the little ones duck more easily.

Patience and time do more than strength or passion.

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.

Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.

All the brains in the world are powerless against the sort of stupidity that is in fashion.

Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.

Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.

Whom the society deems worthless, once they discover their special inclination, it will change the very course of their lives as well as the shape of the very society that distastes them.

When your womb quickens again, and you bear a living child, then he will return, and not before.

Cities are the greatest creations of humanity.

You jump right over anything in the past, and you don't analyze problems.

I think these days, as an artist, you have to be slightly entrepreneurial. ...Nobody really sells records anymore.

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.

In the polling booth narrow self interest wins out over lofty principles.

Every scar in my face is worth it.

I discovered philosophy in my youth when I read wildly, and thus I was exposed to the world of ideas.

I was only following orders," the Mayor mocks. "The refuge of scoundrels since the dawn of time.