Whatever pretended causes we may blame our afflictions upon, it is often nothing but self-interest and vanity that produce 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.

If history is written by the victorious, what if the victors lied?

Fish and company start to smell after three days.

She finally understood why the monsters in the Forest always seemed to smile. Beasts only bared their teeth as a warning before they attack.

I wanted it to be as readable as possible. I had the ambition of reaching a broader audience.

The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.

Freedom is self-determination.

Some actors play themselves, don't they?

The purpose of art is to bring people into presence.

In the environment, every victory is temporary, every defeat permanent.

Pluck not the wayside flower; It is the traveler's dower.