If you think I'm over-the-top, I am.
The duration of our passions is no more dependent on ourselves than the duration of our lives.
Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
A man often imagines that he acts, when he is acted upon.
If we took as much pains to be what we ought, as we do to deceive others by disguising what we are; we might appear as we are, without being at the trouble of any disguise.
To be a great man it is necessary to know how to profit by the whole of our good fortune.
Jealousy is in some measure just and reasonable, since it merely aims at keeping something that belongs to us or we think belongsto us, whereas envy is a frenzy that cannot bear anything that belongs to others.
I still do miss the freedom to play any kind of character I wanted to play.
When we find a man meditating on the words of God, my friends, that man is full of boldness and is successful.
We have long possessed the art of war and the science of war, which have been evolved in the minutest detail.
A monkey was carrying two handfuls of peas. One little pea dropped out. He tried to pick it up, and split twenty. He tried to pick up the twenty, and split them all. Then he lost his temper, scattered the peas in all directions and ran away