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The responses of human beings vary greatly under dangerous circumstances. The strong man advances boldly to meet them head on. The weak man grows agitated. But the superior man stands up to fate, endures resolutely in his inner certainty If ignorant both.

You win only if you aren't afraid to lose.

Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason's imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is always the imagination alone which is at work.

Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.

It contains a misleading impression, not a lie. It was being economical with the truth.

Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do not follow those who lie in contempt of reality. Let your lie be even more logical than the truth itself, so the weary travelers may find repose.

Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive.

Voluptuaries, consumed by their senses, always begin by flinging themselves with a great display of frenzy into an abyss. But they survive, they come to the surface again. And they develop a routine of the abyss: "It's four o clock. At five I have my abyss... ".

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.

Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, knowing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent knows what we are talking about.

I write about violence as naturally as Jane Austen wrote about manners. Violence shapes and obsesses our society, and if we do not stop being violent we have no future.

There is pleasure in calm remembrance of a past sorrow.

To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.

The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.

Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy: its after-flavor, metallic and corroding, gave me a sensation as if I had been poisoned.

Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger. .

My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires. .

Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.

The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is week. .