I'm never going to be disabled. I'm sick of being so healthy.

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.

Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties

It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive.

Old age is by nature rather talkative.

Life is made up of marble and mud.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

Life is the dancer and you are the dance.

Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.

Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.

That's the trouble with the world. We all despise ourselves.

Every person who ever thought he had a right to assert, and went boldly and asserted it, himself, or jointly with others that shared his convictions, was a direct actionist.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

It is not the length of life, but the depth.

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.