Tears throw a veil over our faults and allow us to accuse fate without fear or contradiction.

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

Misunderstanding women is a clear sign of scant virility.

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

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

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

And it is true that life lacks the monotony of museums. There come days which seem worthy of being framed, but they are so full of conflicting sounds, of line and color and living, burning light that they never become tedious.