Anything of any importance cannot help but be unrecognizable, since it bears no resemblance to anything already known.
I succeeded in bewitching a fair number and in being intoxicated with my mistakes.
Statues to great men are made of the stones thrown at them in their lifetime.
The Louvre is a morgue; you go there to identify your friends.
I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.
Wealth is an inborn attitude of mind, like poverty. The pauper who has made his pile may flaunt his spoils, but cannot wear them plausibly.