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

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

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

The fancies of wine are authentic events.

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

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

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