I only attract loving people in my world for they are a mirror of what I am.
The secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive.
I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.
Reason is not what decides love.
When you model yourself on people, you should try to resemble their good sides.
What! Would you make no distinction between hypocrisy and devotion? Would you give them the same names, and respect the mask as you do the face? Would you equate artifice and sincerity? Confound appearance with truth? Regard the phantom as the very person? Value counterfeit as cash?
Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you
Let the ground of all thy religious actions be obedience; examine not why it is commanded, but observe it because it is commanded. True obedience neither procrastinates nor questions.
You have to do everything possible to win no matter what.
Haste and escape for your lives, look not behind you, escape to the mountain, lest you be consumed.