It is comfortable to live in the belief that you are great, though your greatness is latent.

Health doesn't analyze itself, nor does it look at itself in the mirror. Only we sick people know something about ourselves.

The fancies of wine are authentic events.

There are three things I always forget. Names, faces and... the third I can't remember.

Pain and love - the whole of life, in short - cannot be looked on as a disease just because they make us suffer.

Everyone tends to remember the past with greater fervor as the present gains greater importance.

To kill someone, even treacherously is more manly than to wound a friend by betraying his confidence.