The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.
Comedy aims at representing men as worse, tragedy as better than in actual life.
I don’t know who I am! I’m like cat here, a no-name slob.
I'm not gonna let anyone put me in a cage.
Whatever lies within our power to do lies also within our power not to do.
Money will not purchase happiness for the man who has no concept of what he wants.
Anger is a gift.
Because no matter where you run you just end up running into yourself.
Happiness belongs to the self sufficient.
I don't wish to be the symbol of anything. I'm only myself.
Plot is character revealed by action.
The man who damns money has obtained it dishonourably; the man who respects it has earned it.
I’ve got to do something about the way I look!.
For the first time since her return, she felt pain, a violent pain, but it made her feel alive, because it was worth feeling.
Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.
The gods too are fond of a joke.
The soul never thinks without a mental picture.
The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.
But you see, the measure of hell you're able to endure is the measure of your love.
Never ask people about your work.
Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artists metaphysical value judgements.
Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.
One loses everything when one loses one's sense of humour.