To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation.

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.

Religion grants its adherents malign, intoxicating and morally corrosive sensations. Destroying intellectual freedom is always evil, but only religion makes doing evil feel quite so good.

Everybody is fighting a hard battle that you know nothing about, never give up with yours.

There’s nothing wrong with an adult being a child, except whining like one.

Sometimes just to touch the ground is enough for me, even if not a single thing grows from what I plant.

Give a beggar a dime and he'll bless you. Give him a dollar and he'll curse you for withholding the rest of your fortune. Poverty is a bag with a hole at the bottom.

Sincerity, even if it speaks with a stutter, will sound eloquent when inspired.

I had to take responsibility, even if it meant saying no to an authority figure, because I was the authority on me.

Give up learning, and put an end to your troubles.

The state is a bankrupt institution. The only alternative to this bankrupt 'humanistic' system is a God-centered government.

The significant owl hoots in the night.