Οur own distrust somewhat justifies the deceit of others.

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.

Intellect is not wisdom.

Like crying wolf, if you keep looking for sympathy as a justification for your actions, you will someday be left standing alone when you really need help.

What we pay for with our lives never costs too much.

Perhaps it is time to debate culture. The common story is that in "real" African culture, before it was tainted by the west, gender roles were rigid and women were contentedly oppressed.

I want to make sure I'm not a dilettante. Decorating has been a passion all my life. I love it.

What distinguishes the historian from the collector of historical facts is generalization.

There are natures in which, if they love us, we are conscious of having a sort of baptism and consecration.

I'm certainly not Tom Cruise or Brad Pitt.

We must read the Bible through the eyes of shipwrecked people for whom everything has gone overboard.

It was easy to idealize someone you barely knew.