Everybody who does not live in a prostitute's bed and on a diet of cocaine snow is called an ascetic nowadays.

You know well I couldn't bear to live with a low common man after you two; and it's wicked and cruel of you to insult me by pretending I could.

Those who can’t change their minds can’t change anything.

Titles distinguish the mediocre, embarrass the superior, and are disgraced by the inferior.

The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer.

It is one of the mysterious ways of Allah to make women troublesome when he makes them beautiful.

If more than 10% of the people like a painting, you can be sure it's bad.