... see well how it often befalls that to rise to the topmost degree would make it seem that the abyss is on high.

Courage is as often the outcome of despair as of hope; in the one case we have nothing to lose, in the other everything to gain.

It is easier to die for a cause than to live for it.

Tact is good taste in action.

Men at any age truly never grow up. All, no matter what importance they may have attained, are still no more than little boys.

Old age appears hideous to us until we have to choose between it and death.

Calumny is like counterfeit money; many people who would not coin it circulate it without qualms.

The years that a woman subtracts from her age are not lost. They are added to other women's.

It is easier to win love than to keep it.

To have a good enemy, choose a friend; he knows where to strike.

We only make a dupe of the friend whose advice we ask, for we never tell him all; and it is usually what we have left unsaid that decides our conduct.

Living in the moment works sometimes, but when alone, it clouds over your memories and dreams, and those are what I need to survive.

The memories of walks...are hitched on to particular times and places

When you feel over confident, check if it is your arrogance speaking to you?

Unthought-of Frailties cheat us in the Wise.

No self-respecting person who loves humanity or wishes for a world of greater equality and justice should have anything to do with whitewashing the slavery and extermination of Marxism-Leninism.

There is an inherent blasphemy in seeking to add to what Christ Jesus in His dying moments declared to be finished.

The knowing, I told myself, is only a vapor of the mind, and yet it can wreck havok with one's sanity.

To what shall the character of utility be ascribed, if not to that which is a source of pleasure?

The law of work does seem utterly unfair-but there it is, and nothing can change it: the higher the pay in enjoyment the worker gets out of it, the higher shall be his pay in cash, too.

Keep going. You're almost there and remember, the sun is most beautiful as it's going away.