What we cut off from our other faults is very often but so much added to our pride.

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.

As long as we are grateful, we shall be glad.

We don't need flowery words about inequality to tell us that, and we don't need a party that has led while poverty and hunger rose to record levels to give us lectures about suffering.

La chose la plus importante a' toute la vie est le choix du me tier: le hasard en dispose. The most important thing in life is to choose a profession: chance arranges for that.

That thing is Freedom: the gift whereby ye most resemble your Maker and are yourselves part of eternal reality.

I know when I was a kid I ate a beetle. I ate a beetle because I thought it was licorice.

Any experience of reality is indescribable!

The soul is the perceiver and revealer of truth. We know truth when we see it, let skeptic and scoffer say what they choose.

But meditate now on steadfastness and clarity, and let those be the wings that lift and soar through the celestial spheres.

We fear that which we cannot see.

Believe in your passions and act on them.