The abominable effort to take one’s sins with one to paradise.

Too chaste an adolescence makes for a dissolute old age. It is doubtless easier to give up something one has known than something one imagines.

Generally among intelligent people are found nothing but paralytics and among men of action nothing but fools.

Are you then unable to recognize unless it has the same sound as yours?

A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned

Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself- and thus make yourself indispensable.

The most decisive actions of life are most often unconsidered actions.