But what does it mean, the plague? It's life, that's all.

Old married people look so much alike that they have the same number of hairs in their ears.

There can be no question of holding forth on ethics. I have seen people behave badly with great morality and I note every day that integrity has no need of rules

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.

Beauty, no doubt, does not make revolutions. But a day will come when revolutions will have need of beauty.

A fate is not a punishment.

Life is the result of all your choices.