It is easier to cope with a bad conscience than with a bad reputation.

I cling to my imperfection, as the very essence of my being.

To really enjoy the better things in life, one must first have experienced the things they are better than.

There are people whom one should like very well to drop, but would not wish to be dropped by.

Observe due measure, for right timing is in all things the most important factor.

Beware of entrance to a quarrel, but, being in, bear t that th' opposed may beware of thee.

Friend is sometimes a word devoid of meaning; enemy, never.

The haft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle's own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction.

He makes no friend who never made a foe.

The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller not one.

Evil deeds do not prosper; the slow man catches up with the swift.

The multitude is always in the wrong.

Few men make themselves masters of the things they write or speak.

Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes along.

The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Doors don't slam open.

In the pursuit of nonconformity, we become the ultimate conformist. Van Gogh was a true nonconformist.

If you don't bring Paris with you, you wont find it there.

Civilization: a thin veneer over barbarianism.