Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion. [Fr., C'est un betail servile et sot a mon avis Que les imitateurs.]

Patience and time do more than strength or passion.

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.

Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.

All the brains in the world are powerless against the sort of stupidity that is in fashion.

Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.

Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.

As Antiquus's son, I was next in line to be the leader of my village... But leadership is not inherited. It is earned through action.

For the Right, strikes are both devilish and pathetic, have both terrible and absolutely no effects.

And I don't like to work. I only like working when I'm working.

I didn't want really to be involved in a normal soccer club.

Books are only the shadow and life the real thing. I believe this as strongly as any belief I hold.

We want to annoy the whenever we can. The best thing we can do with environmentalists is shoot them.

You can't go wrong with fish and chips.

Veteran art creates a meeting place between veterans and civilians, or simply between veterans with different experiences.

Governments have budgets but no money, companies have money but no budgets.

He who disagrees with me in private, call him a fool. He who disagrees with me in public, call him an ambulance.