There is no better soporific and sedative than skepticism.
Good prose is written only face to face with poetry.
Sometimes all you need to do to win clever people over to a principle is to present it in the form of a shocking paradox.
Yes, life is a woman!
Give me today, for once, the worst throw of your dice, destiny. Today I transmute everything into gold.
One should part from life as Odysseus parted from Nausicaa-blessing it rather than in love with it.