You can't imagine what a pleasure this complete laziness is to me: not a thought in my brain- you might send a ball rolling through it!

Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.

He felt that all his hitherto dissipated and dispersed forces were gathered and directed with terrible energy towards one blissful goal.

He liked to fish; he seemed to take pride in being able to like such a stupid occupation.

How often we sin, how much we deceive, and all for what?... All will end in death, all!

When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.

Memento mori - remember death! These are important words. If we kept in mind that we will soon inevitably die, our lives would be completely different. If a person knows that he will die in a half hour, he certainly will not bother doing trivial, stupid, or, especially, bad things during this half hour. Perhaps you have half a century before you die-what makes this any different from a half hour?