Vice foments war; it is virtue which actually fights. If there were no virtue, we would live in peace forever.

Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.

We are so presumptuous that we think we can separate our personal interest from that of humanity, and slander mankind without compromising ourselves.

The shortness of life cannot dissuade us from its pleasures, nor console us for its pains.

The young suffer less from their own errors than from the cautiousness of the old.

You are not born for fame if you don't know the value of time.

The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.

The art of pleasing is the art of deception.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Courage is adversity's lamp.

Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless.

Nothing was being done to help the non-dopers, to encourage or support them. Even the clean riders like myself and Moncout knew how easy it was to cheat the tests.

The girl. Was that who I was? I was the girl just like they were the boys. Was that how we were going to address each other for the entirety of this year? How family-feeling.

Mad I call it, for to define true madness, what is't to be nothing else but mad?

Let me look upward into the branches of the flowering oak and know that it grew great and strong because it grew slowly and well.

Barça has always given me great affection, and even to this day. I only have words of gratitude for them

You love new boyfriend?" "I think so. Yes." "Then you must spoil him. And he must spoil you.

If with an impure mind a person speaks or acts suffering follows him like the wheel that follows the foot of the ox.

Erroneous assumptions can be disastrous.

A picture should be the expression of the will of the painter.

I think the guys who are really controlling their emotions ... are going to win.