Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.

The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.

We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.

Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places.

The past is the best prophet of the future.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.

I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.

In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.

The gentleman understands rightousness, the petty man understands interest.

Old age is by nature rather talkative.

The more I see, the less I know for sure.

Life's pretty good, and why wouldn't it be? I'm a pirate, after all.

Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties

Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose

Im not in this world to live up to your expectations and youre not in this world to live up to mine.

The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes

Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life.

Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that's exactly the way we want it to be.

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.