It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.

A true gentleman is one who is never intentionally rude.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws. Their origin is pure vanity. Their result is absolutely nil. They give us, now and then, some of those luxurious sterile emotions that have a certain charm for the weak.... They are simply cheques that men draw on a bank where they have no account.

I'm so smart, I read and understand Hegel

Men of thoughts should have nothing to do with action.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.