There exists no more difficult art than living.

Crime requires further crime to conceal it.

Pleasure dies at the very moment when it charms us most.

There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.

It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.

Why does no one confess his sins? Because he is yet in them. It is for a man who has awoke from sleep to tell his dreams.

Many things have fallen only to rise higher.