When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.

As in no other form of lute or combat, the conditions are such; the winner takes nothing, neither his ease, nor his pleasure, nor any notion of glory, nor if he wins far enough, will he find anything within himself.

A good life is not measured by any biblical span.

A person with increasing knowledge and sensory education may derive infinite enjoyment from wine.

Sometimes you know the story. Sometimes you make it up as you go along and have no idea how it will come out.

There's no one thing that's true. It's all true.

To make war all you need is intelligence. But to win you need talent and material.