Everything has been thought of before, but the difficulty is to think of it again

As we grow old...the beauty steals inwards.

A person who talks about his Inferiors han't any.

Thefire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him.

Takeyour life into your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one toblame.

When aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.

The more we see, the more we shall be able to imagine, and the more we imagine, the more we must think we see.

Onemight as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as totry to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

We cannot all be great but we can always attach ourselves to something that is great.

You can't unscramble an egg.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

Use softwords and hard arguments.