I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.

Youth is a blossom whose fruit is love; happy is he who plucks it after watching it slowly ripen.

So, preferring death to capture, I accomplished the most astonishing deeds, and which, more then once, showed me that the too great care we take of our bodies is the only obstacle to the sucess of those projects which require rapid decision, and vigorous and determined execution. In reality, when you have once devoted your life to your enterprises, you are no longer the equal of other men, or, rather, other men are no longer your equals, and whosoever has taken this resolution, feels his strength and resources doubled.

In love, writing is dangerous, not to mention pointless.

To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.

I'm sure you're very nice, but you'd be even nicer if you went away.

True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring.