if you ask me, nobody really likes people who are always doing their duty.

Time does not dispose of a question - it only presents it anew in a different guise.

In my experience, people who go about looking for trouble usually find it.

Do you know my friend that each one of us is a dark mystery, a maze of conflicting passions and desire and aptitudes?

... nothing is so boring as devotion.

I suppose without curiosity a man would be a tortoise. Very comfortable life, a tortoise has.

When engaged in eating, the brain should be the servant of the stomach.