It requires greater virtues to support good fortune than bad.

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.

Well, I'm about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy.

We don't love people so much for the good they have done us, as for the good we have done them

In the long run no individual prospers beyond the measure of his faith.

Life will be lengthened while growing, for Thought is the measure of life.

Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed.

Men come of age at sixty, women at fifteen.

My basic rule is to speak slowly and simply so that my audience has an opportunity to follow and think about what I am saying.

Normally the great men that we admire from a distance lose their magic when one knows them well. With Hitler the opposite is true.

And I thought I'd always like some form of business, I didn't know what kind of business I'd go in.

Loving your enemy is a radical concept.