Other people's appetites easily appear excessive when one doesn't share them.
It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.
Nothing blocks happiness like happiness remembered.
Man: The most complex of beings, and thus the most dependent of beings. On all that made you up, you depend.
The abominable effort to take one’s sins with one to paradise.
But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.