"Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat."

“ntruths are thieves, robbing us of a birthright.”

“And yet in a way I would rather fail point blank. Things one can do have no value. I don't mind feeling small myself, but I dread finding the world is.”

“It is thought that women inspire by their beauty; more often they do so by their longings.”

“here is a flaw in civilization from the instant it has to admit fear.”

“The heart may think it knows better: The senses know that absence blots people out. We have really no absent friends.”

“Cicero, in invoking the law of heaven, invoked what was by nature of heaven: law — inviolable principle, better than the vacillating gods.”