The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
A minute's success pays the failure of years.
When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
There were millions of ways that the world could kill me.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.