It is not becoming to lay to virtue the weariness of old age.
Understanding is the beginning of approving.
One should want only one thing and want it constantly. Then one is sure of getting it. But I desire everything, and consequently get nothing.
I prefer granting with a good grace what I know I shan't be able to prevent.
It is only through restraint that man can manage not to suppress himself.
Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death