"Memory says, 'I did that.' Pride replies,..." - Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

“Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.”

“This woman is beautiful and clever: but how much cleverer she would have become if she were not beautiful!”

“One is healthy when one can laugh at the earnestness and zeal with which one has been hypnotized by any single detail of one's life.”

“I know more about what it's like to be elderly and infirm and kind of stupid, the way you get forgetful, but on the other hand I'm a littler, wiser, dare we say? The word 'wisdom' has kind of faded out of our vocabulary, but yeah, I'm a little wiser.”

“Comrades mine and I in the midst, and their memory ever to keep for the dead I loved so well.”

“Memory is a capricious and arbitrary creature. You never can tell what pebble she will pick up from the shore of life to keep among her treasures, or what inconspicuous flower of the field she will preserve as the symbol of "thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears." . . . And yet I do not doubt that the most Important things are always the best remembered.”

“Pity is the most pleasant feeling in those who have not much pride and have no prospect of great conquests; for them the easy prey - and that is what all who suffer are - is enchanting.”

“I have stopped smoking now and then, for a few months at a time, but it was not on principle, it was only to show off; it was to pulverize those critics who said I was a slave to my habits and couldn't break my bonds.”

“Humility is often only a feigned submissiveness by which men hope to bring other people to submit to them; it is a more calculated sort of pride.”