"Death, like the sun, cannot be looked..." - Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“Vanity, shame, and above all disposition, often make men brave and women chaste.”

“Without humility, we keep all our defects; and they are only crusted over by pride, which conceals them from others, and often from ourselves.”

“We always like those who admire us.”

“Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”

“The fear of death is indeed the pretence of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being the appearance of knowing the unknown.”

“To fear death is nothing other than to think oneself wise when one is not. For it is to think one knows what one does not know. No one knows whether death may not even turn out to be the greatest blessings of human beings. And yet people fear it as if they knew for certain it is the greatest evil.”

“It may have happened, it may not have happened but it could have happened.”

“He wondered vaguely whether in the abolished past it had been a normal experience to lie in bed like this, in the cool of a summer evening, a man and a woman with no clothes on, making love when they chose, talking of what they chose, not feeling any compulsion to get up, simply lying there and listening to peaceful sounds outside. Surely there could never have been a time when that seemed ordinary?”

“Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.”