You know, [women] do not really condemn any weakness: rather, they try to humiliate or disarm our strengths. That is why women arethe reward, not of the warrior, but of the criminal.

Always go too far, because that's where you'll find the truth

I am too much in love with my lies and hypocrisies not to confess them fervently.

Freedom is not constituted primarily of privileges but of responsibilities.

Believe me, the hardest thing for a man to give up is that which he really doesn't want, after all.

Travel, which is like a greater and a graver science, brings us back to ourselves.

When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune.