Nature gave women too much power; the law gives them too little.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

Peoplespend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idledreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill theemptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed tosearch was within.

Learning must be had, but in the second place, as subsequent only to greater qualities.

Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible.

Nothing has happend to you unless you make much of it.

Theharder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

He whois unable to dance says the yard is stony.

Tofight fear, act. To increase fear wait, put off, postpone.

Life cannot go on without much forgetting.