Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
Do not believe that he who seeks to comfort you lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life has much difficulty... Were it otherwise he would never have been able to find those words.
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.