It is fear that I stand most in fear of, in sharpness it exceeds every other feeling.

The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.

My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.

There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.

To enter a theatre for a performance is to be inducted into a magical space, to be ushered into the sacred arena of the imagination.

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Your soul never asks you to endure anything you can't handle.

Philosophy as science, as serious, rigorous, indeed apodictically rigorous science -- the dream is over.

Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.

People reveal so much of their mental processes online, simply because the psychological effect of anonymity just means that a whole raft of inhibitions are left alone when people log on.

That's the story of life - when you start enjoying people, it's always too late.

Women politicians take their job seriously and accomplish their duties diligently and sensitively. Only they can understand the problems of women and act as a sounding board for their concerns.

Everything can be satirized.

In years that bring the philosophic mind.