The generality of virtuous women are like hidden treasures, they are safe only because nobody has sought after them.

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.

The compensation we receive from employment is not enough for the time being wasted

Saying you are a patriot is not enough - you have to be one.

Life's too short to deal with other people's insecurities.

I'm getting better at it everyday.

The master proves himselin recognizing his limitations.

I don't mind suffering as long as it's really about something. I don't mind great luck, if it's about something. If it's the hollow stuff, then there's no gift, one way or the other.

As far as depths of geekiness... I have more friends in World of Warcraft than I do in real life!

I lost myself to music at a very early age, and I remained there.

turn and turn and turn again you see the what, but not the when remedy and wrong entwine and so they form a single vine