If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them.

Love doesn't hide. It stays and fights. It goes the distance, that's why love is so strong. So it can carry you all the way home.

They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.

Anger represents a certain power, when a great mind, prevented from executing its own generous desires, is moved by it.

Desire is poison at lunch and wormwood at dinner; your bed is a stone, friendship is hateful and your fancy is always fixed on one thing.

The art of war is like the art of the courtesan; indeed they might be called sisters, since both are slaves of desperation.

Life is a toy made of glass; it appears to be of inestimable price, but in reality it is very cheap.