That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

Good prose is written only face to face with poetry.

Man wishes woman to be peaceable, but in fact she is essentially warlike, like the cat.

At the beginning of a marriage ask yourself whether this woman will be interesting to talk to from now until old age. Everything else in marriage is transitory: most of the time is spent in conversation.

No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.

Be careful when you fight the monsters, lest you become one.

But eternal liveliness is what counts: what does "eternal life" matter, or life at all?