Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness, of a belief.
Most people who have been done a favor consider it an opportunity to show their incorruptibility rather than their gratitude. This is not only considerably cheaper morally, but it sometimes increases their pride so much that pretty soon they look down on their benefactor.
No spectre assails us in more varied disguises than loneliness, and one of its most impenetrable masks is called love.
Sleep does make us all equal, it seems to me, like his big brother- Death.
The principal task of friendship is to foster one's friends' illusions.
To be practical in life means to take everything seriously and nothing tragically.
To be ready is one thing, to be able to wait is another; but to seize the right moment is everything.
You never so much want to be happy with a woman as when you know that you're ceasing to care for her.
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