The evil that we do does not attract to us so much persecution and hatred as our good qualities.

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.

Don’t be with him, don’t want him, don’t go with him. Be with me. Want me. Stay with me.I don’t know how to be without you.

There are those who dance the notes, and those who dance the music.

If we had lost our own chief good, other people’s good would remain, and that is worth trying for.

What is new in our time is the increased power of the authorities to enforce their prejudices.

Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.

Teaching is a wonderful way to learn.

Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, therefore, in degree, not nature.

Good God. I don’t believe St. Vincent and the word ‘celibacy’ have ever been mentioned in the same sentence before.

Don't let it bring you down. It's only castles burning, find someone who's turning, and you will come around.

The ability of the theist to misunderstand a thing is directly proportional to the obviousness of the thing.