Man is the inventor of stupidity.

Life is a series of sensations connected to different states of consciousness

Man begins by loving love and ends by loving a woman. Woman begins by loving a man and ends by loving love.

Art is the accomplice of love.

Of all the sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity.

Man associates ideas not according to logic or verifiable exactitude, but according to his pleasure and interests. It is for this reason that most truths are nothing but prejudices.

A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble

Thinking is hard work. One can't bear burdens and ideas at the same time

Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art.

Man has made use of his intelligence; he invented stupidity.

Knowledge has its end in itself, apart from any idea of life and propagation of the species.

Natasha, in her lilac silk dress trimmed with black lace walked, as women can walk, with the more repose and stateliness the greater the pain and shame in her soul.

I have a renewed commitment to elegance, she said, in case you think I'm just spending money for the fun of it.

I didn't know that my life forever changing would be because you loved me and then left, and in such a final way.

Everything you say and do is having an impact on others.

A person who has power has an open mind. Their mind is open and they can see on other levels. Seeing is a quality that comes to a person who has personal power.

If you're not still learning and growing as an actor, then you have no backbone and no career

Great saints are never wimps.

I probably can't stand you, but that doesn't mean I don't love you.

Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate.

Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.