Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.
An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.
Ah, God! what trances of torments does that man endure who is consumed with one unachieved revengeful desire. He sleeps with clenched hands; and wakes with his own bloody nails in his palms.
A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.
A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.
A man must pay dear for his errors if he wishes to get rid of them, and even then he is lucky.
A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you’d think misfortune would get tired, but then time is your misfortune.
A man is never lost at sea and it is a long island.
You cannot oppose reasoning to pride, the principal of all the vices, since, by its very nature, the proud man refuses to listen to it.
You can take away a man’s gods, but only to give him others in return.
You can be a rich scumbag just as easily as a poor scumbag, or you can be a decent human being either way. Money’s got nothing to do with it. It’s nice to have, but it’s not what makes you who you are.
