"When you stab a man, you stab him once; when you stab a woman, you stab her a thousand times."

"There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more."

"On what slender threads do life and fortune hang."

"Time, which encrusts all physical substances with its mossy mantle, as it deposits all moral phenomena with its mantle of forgetfulness."

"Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next."