The only thing worse than bad health is a bad name.
Shame has poor memory.
The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.
A person does not belong to a place until there is someone dead under the ground.
Even when the winds of misfortune blow, amazing things can still happen.
his examination revealed that he had no fever, no pain anywhere, and that his only concrete feeling was an urgent desire to die. All that was needed was shrewd questioning...to conclude once again that the symptoms of love were the same as those of cholera.