The spirit of rebellion is present in every great city, and the great task of wise government is to keep it dormant, for if it wakes it is a torrent which no dam can hold back.

After all, a beautiful woman without a mind of her own leaves her lover with no resource after he had physically enjoyed her charms.

one who makes no mistakes makes nothing

Real love is the love that sometimes arises after sensual pleasure: if it does, it is immortal; the other kind inevitably goes stale, for it lies in mere fantasy.

Be the flame, not the moth.

The sweetest pleasures are those which are hardest to be won.

By recollecting the pleasures I have had formerly, I renew them, I enjoy them a second time, while I laugh at the remembrance of troubles now past, and which I no longer feel.

To Kiss : An attempt to absorb the essence of the other person.

Give me a man who is man enough to give himself just to the woman who is worth him. If that woman were me,I would love him alone and forever

Love is three quarters curiosity.

Nobody can deprive me of the fact that I had a good time.

A grief travels with us as far as we carry it.

Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.

A Soviet diplomat, like a skilled chess player, does not expect his opposite number to give up something for nothing, not even a pawn.

President Obama is the least transparent president in the history of this country.

No victor believes in chance.

1 out of every 3 professionals on the planet is on LinkedIn.

Live as though you’ll die tomorrow, but farm as though you’ll live forever.

Where shame is, there is also fear.

It is fine to stand upon some lofty mountain thought, and feel the spirit stretch into a view.

Choice of aim is clearly a matter of clarification of values, especially on the choice between possible options.