There are many predicaments in life that one must be a bit crazy to escape from.

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.

Man will never reach the higher wisdom, If he can't yet accept the pain of change.

I believe that more people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.

This isn’t how things were supposed to happen. I was supposed to be me. Not this.

That's why I won't give up! I'll continue to move forward because I believe!

Just by being with me, I feel like I have ruined a lot of things around you.

The wife ought to have the first child and the husband the second, then there wouldn't ever be any more.

All the news of home you read, more about the war and of bloody changes.

Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority...

The human failing I would most like to correct is aggression.