Since governments take the right of death over their people, it is not astonishing if the people should sometimes take the right of death over governments.

Life is a slope. As long as you're going up you're always looking towards the top and you feel happy, but when you reach it, suddenly you can see the road going downhill and death at the end of it all. It's slow going up and quick going down.

To lie about a far country is easy

A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.

Whether we are describing a king, an assassin, a thief, an honest man, a prostitute, a nun, a young girl, or a stallholder in a market, it is always ourselves that we are describing.

You've never lived until you've almost died. For those who have fought for it, life has a flavor the protected shall never know.

In fact living is dying.