At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.

The most knowledgeable person in one domain may be the most ignorant in another.

Everyone would like to behave like a pagan, with everyone else behaving like a Christian.

In fact, other people create for lack of power. I, on the other hand, do not need a work: I live.

Absurd- that is the light mind that establishes its own borders.

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.

But all the long speeches, all the interminable days and hours that people had spent talking about my soul, had left me with the impression of a colorless swirling river that was making me dizzy.