Satan wants to cripple me and then blame me for limping.
Our hopes, often though they deceive us, lead us pleasantly along the path of life.
Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
A man often imagines that he acts, when he is acted upon.
If we took as much pains to be what we ought, as we do to deceive others by disguising what we are; we might appear as we are, without being at the trouble of any disguise.
To be a great man it is necessary to know how to profit by the whole of our good fortune.
Jealousy is in some measure just and reasonable, since it merely aims at keeping something that belongs to us or we think belongsto us, whereas envy is a frenzy that cannot bear anything that belongs to others.
The pleasure in complete domination over another person (or other animate creature) is the very essence of the sadistic drive. Another way of formulating the same thought is to say that the aim of sadism is to transform man into a thing, something animate into something inanimate, since by complete and absolute control the living loses one essential quality of life - freedom.
Italian hospitals are great. The doctor smoking in the emergency room will sign any prescription you ask for.
My life is a blessing every day that I get up. God saved my feet. How am I not going to use them?
I have not lost my mind - it's backed up on disk somewhere.