Great names abase, instead of elevating, those who do not know how to bear them.
In love the deceit generally outstrips the distrust.
To boast that one never flirts is actually a kind of flirtation.
To be a great man it is necessary to turn to account all opportunities.
We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.