I embrace my rival, but only to strangle him.

The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one.

According as the man is, so must you humour him.

The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love.

Is a faith without action a sincere faith?

Too much virtue can be criminal.

There are no secrets that time does not reveal.

Nothing is so difficult but that it may be found out by seeking.

Hell, covering all with its gloomy vapors, has cast shadows on even the holiest eyes.

I have everything, yet have nothing; and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want.

A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt.

Do not they bring it to pass by knowing that they know nothing at all?

There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it with reluctance.

On the throne, one has many worries; and remorse is the one that weighs the least.

I am a man, and nothing that concerns a man do I deem a matter of indifference to me.

Without money honor is merely a disease.

It behooves a prudent person to make trial of everything before arms.

Love is not a fire to be shut up in a soul. Everything betrays us: voice, silence, eyes; half-covered fires burn all the brighter.

The glory of my name increases my shame. Less known by mortals, I could better escape their eyes.

A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.

Thank the Gods! My misery exceeds all my hopes!

I embrace my rival, but only to strangle him.

My death, taking the light from my eyes, gives back to the day the purity which they soiled.

I know the disposition of women: when you will, they won't; when you won't, they set their hearts upon you of their own inclination.

In fine, nothing is said now that has not been said before.

How good is God! How sweet his yoke!

I have pushed virtue to outright brutality.

If I could believe that this was said sincerely, I could put up with anything.

Justice in the extreme is often unjust.

Many a time a man cannot be such as he would be, if circumstances do not admit of it.

It is a maxim of old that among themselves all things are common to friends.

Life is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.

Extreme justice is often injustice.

To repair the irreparable ravages of time.

Have there ever been more submissive slaves? Adoring, even in their irons, the God who punishes them.

Wrinkles on the brow are the imprints of exploits.

Yes, I did shatter my leg, and it really changed my life, in a way. It wasn't much fun, but it did open me up, and as we all know intuitively, adversity can develop resources.

Being too nice literally increases your chances of being hurt used and or taken for granted.

I think that at one moment you're apt for one thing, and at the next moment you're apt for something else.

I don't have a place that I call home at the moment because there's no point. I mean, I'm a traveling circus for a while. It's weird. Like, if I wanted to go home, there's nowhere to go. I just go to a hotel. But I've kind of gotten used to it.

I was really into '24' at university, and it resulted in a lot of lost hours that could have been spent at the library. If you could have told me then I would be in it one day, I'd have hit the roof.

If they had said my writing wasn't good enough, fair enough, that's an opinion. But to say it's too complex is to insult the intelligence of the so-called young.

I believe China is a major trade violator. The Chinese break all the rules. They counterfeit our goods, steal our international property rights, and hack the computers of our industries and government. Something must be done about it.

For a long time, I've had a recurring dream - I dream I don't have to write any more, that I'm free. I'm not free, alas; I'm still clearing the same terrain, with the impression that it's never finished.

I only took a high school acting class because there was no other class I wanted to take. I loved it, but I was always against acting as a profession. I didn't like the monetary fluctuations I saw.

We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.

We've had risk assessments performed by Harvard University, which said that even if we did have a small number of cases in this country that the likelihood of it spreading or getting into any kind of human health problem is very, very small.

Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you'll behave to other people.

Both young children and old people have a lot of time on their hands. That's probably why they get along so well.