When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.
You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.
The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.