A fastidious taste is best indoors, away from nature and the city.

You are as happy as you think you are, but not necessarily as miserable as you imagine.

Looking backward at what has been lost, I feel sad, then indifferent, and at last relieved.

Truth is a necessary phantom.

The more powerless people are, the longer they are kept waiting.

If you have no power, talk about your influence. If you have power, talk about the constraints that hem you in.

I do not regret the folly of my youth, but the timidity.