"As a general rule… people ask for advice only in order not to follow it; or if they do follow it, in order to have someone to blame for giving it."

"There are two ways of seeing: with the body and with the soul. The body's sight can sometimes forget, but the soul remembers forever."

"The greatest courage is to be oneself."

"He who dies gains; he who sees others die loses."

"Woman is a creature who is always in the wrong when she has a lover and in the right when she has none."