Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.
In a country where everyone strives for attention, it is better to be bankrupt than to be nothing.
Almost the whole of history is but a sequence of horrors.
And so I leave this world, where the heart must either break or turn to lead (suicide note)
Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
Whatever evil a man may think of women, there is no woman but thinks more.