Now, of all the benefits that virtue confers upon us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.

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.

The baby's beauty lies on its' pure-hearted.

...when I see you here amidst all this, I realise that I proposed to a very small part of you. I thought I was giving you a home and a position, but here I see that I am taking you away from so much.

You can't become a millionaire until you think like one.

Look what we, the humans, the humanity!???What we are doing in "The Purge", it's shown.

The world is made up, for the most part, of fools and knaves, both irreconcileable foes to truth.

It is important to remember that we are energy. Einstein told us that. And energy cannot be created or destroyed, it just changes form.

When the soul wants to depend upon nothing, not even upon life, that is the height of philosophy, the height of manhood.

Our judgment ripens; our imagination decays. We cannot at once enjoy the flowers of the Spring of life and the fruits of its Autumn.

The Bible, contrary to what people think, actually puts forth a strong case for no free will, no free will.

I loved you. I was a pentapod monster, but I loved you. I was despicable and brutal, and turpid, and everything, mais je t’aimais, je t’aimais!