If you want to succeed, limit yourself.
There are people whose clocks stop at a certain point in their lives.
I have always thought that if we began for one moment to say what we thought, society would collapse.
Most celebrated men live in a condition of prostitution.
Despair itself if it goes on long enough, can become a kind of sanctuary in which one settles down and feels at ease.
Since it is necessary to have enemies, let us endeavour to have those who do us honour.