Jealousy is a grievous passion that jealously seeks what causes grief.

I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.

Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.

The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception.

History is the zoology of the human race.

I love the pride whose measure is its own eminence and not the insignificance of someone else.

The character of the crowds is made up of mimicry and hostility.

Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.

Someone who is reluctant to say what he needs to say, often ends up doing so with an insolence whose crassness is proportionate tohis fear, once he gathers the necessary courage.

Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one.

A woman's passion is not the measure of a man's love.

The cure to eliminate fake news is that people stop reading 140-character tweets and start reading 600-page books.

You are set free whenever you love—even those who believe you're crazy.

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

Men create the gods after their own images.

Time was not passing...it was turning in a circle.

All created forms are fractal, as is their purpose, use, and allotted time for existence.

An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.

Some people make movies and think, "Well, I'll just keep asking for more money if this isn't enough." And then there are other people, like Clint Eastwood, who always come in under budget.

Oh, loneliness and cheeseburgers are a dangerous mix.

There were so many people who wanted me for their films.