He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate ... can look fortune in the face.

Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.

Music is so naturally united with us that we cannot be free from it - even if we so desired.

If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good?

He who is virtuous is wise; and he who is wise is good; and he who is good is happy.

Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.

Inconsistency is my very essence; it is the game I never cease to play as I turn my wheel in its ever changing circle, filled with joy as I bring the top to the bottom and the bottom to the top

Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.

One's virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune.

In every kind of adversity, the bitterest part of a man's affliction is to remember that he once was happy.

He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate, and set proud death beneath his feet, can look fortune in the face, unbending both to good and bad; his countenance unconquered.

...whenever a woman describes a man as sweet, the dalliance is doomed.

I seem to remember asking myself if I was insane, and answering, ''Of couse I am - sanity is a compromise. Sanity is the thing that keeps one back.

I will exercise patience and will provide all facts to the general public.

Lawyers work hard and, like us, they're human, many of them.

I have changed my mind, and changed the trimmings of my cap this morning; they are now such as you suggested.

Don't you forget what's divine in the Russian soul and that's resignation.

Random things are luxurious to people. It's personal.

Your character is your accumulation of your thoughts, habits and priorities on a day-to-day basis.

I never heard so much content in so short a period.

I'm tired, it's raining, and I am not a waterlily.