Danger arouses interest. Where death is involved, the vilest criminal invariably stirs a little compassion.
We may give advice, but not the sense to use it.
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.
At the very least we want a witness. We can't stand the idea of our own voices falling silent finally, like a radio running down.
The fruits of victory are tumbling into our mouths too quickly.
I'm still a kid. I'm like six years old. But it's just a matter of wanting to get up, it's just a big journey. I felt like when I left home that I was on a journey, and I still am.
I was convinced before the game that we had a very good chance but today was what you would call in Germany a blackout.