Reconciliation with our enemies is simply a desire to better our condition, a weariness of war, or the fear of some unlucky thing from occurring.

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.

Time in the most powerful thing.Not money, not power, not hope.A person can have everything theydesire but without time they are, all useless.

Wisdom comes at a price. But the price you have to pay shouldn’t guide your decision to invest – the expected return should.

instinct leads me to another flow

Science has an unfortunate habit of discovering information politicians don't want to hear, largely because it has some bearing on reality.

Oppressed peoples are always being asked to stretch a little more, to bridge the gap between blindness and humanity.

Anyone that wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.

It is hidden but always present.

Freedon succeeds from the moment people stop looking to others to improve their lives and start taking responsibility.

Girls are removing pubic hair before fully having it. They would say I feel cleaner, it's for me, but then they'd say if a boy saw pubic hair down there they'd head for the hills.

Too much detail is apt, like any other form of extravagance, to become slightly vulgar.