Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.

If women were as fastidious as men, morally or physically, there would be an end of the race.

When a lion meets another with a louder roar, the first lion thinks the last a bore.

The goal of an artist is to create the definitive work that cannot be surpassed.

Remember that I too am mortal.

Heartbreak is life educating us.

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.