It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that...

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.

Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.

Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.

There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.

If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost.