Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal.

I prefer women with a past. They're always so damned amusing to talk to.

Im Krieg machen die Starken die Schwachen zu Sklaven, im Frieden machen die Reichen die Armen zu Sklaven.

Don't imagine that your perfection lies in accumulating or possessing external things. Your affection is inside of you.

We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim - objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

I can't stand people that do not take food seriously.

Oh, brothers! I don't care for brothers. My elder brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem never to do anything else.