Without humility, we keep all our defects; and they are only crusted over by pride, which conceals them from others, and often from ourselves.

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.

The special virtue of freedom is not that it makes you richer and more powerful but that it gives you more time to understand what it means to be alive.

I thank God for providing my every need.

Letting go of someone you loved wasn't hard. There was no word for what it was, because even if you didn't let them go they were still gone.

Why do the living assume the dead know better than we do? Like they gained some knowledge by dying, but why wouldn't they just be the same confused people they were before they died?

The result of the educative process is capacity for further education.

I have learned from nature that all is equal... all is equal and in balance. I see everything as fitting together.

He is truly a man who will not permit himself to be unduly elated when fortune's breeze is favorable, or cast down when it is adverse.

As long as I'm acting and doing what I love, I'll be happy.

Most of the sacrifices involved tearing out the heart, offering it to the sun and, with some blood, also to the idols

You must take a house beside the Physician. It will be a miracle if ye be the first sick that Christ hath put away uncured.