It is more difficult to be an honorable man for a week than to be a hero for fifteen minutes.
Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.
Walks. The body advances, while the mind flutters around it like a bird.
Let us stay at home: there we are decent. Let us not go out: our defects wait for us at the door, like flies.
It is when we are faced with death that we turn most bookish.
It is not enough to be happy, it is also necessary that others not be.