It is far better to be deceived than undeceived by those whom we tenderly love.

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.

Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.

Although time is equally possessed by everyone, it is valued and used differently by the successful.

Books have great value, actions have greater value.

If you go fishing you may not catch any fish. If you don't go fishing, you'll never catch any fish.

But you see, I can believe a thing without understanding it. It's all a matter of training.

Kindness and patience were always called for.

Every punch was thrown with bad intentions.

At no point in history have so many non-risk-takers, that is, those with no personal exposure, exerted so much control.

Either the future is subject to chance--in which case nobody, not even a god, can affect it one way or the other--or it is predestined, in which case foreknowledge cannot avert it.

Happen to things, don't let things happen to you