When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?
The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.
For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.
Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.