"the only graceful way to accept an insult is to ignore it; if you cant ignore it, top it; if you cant top it, laugh at it; if you cant laugh at it, its probably deserved"

"The dead to the grave, the living to the loaf."

"That’s going to be your trouble — judgment about yourself.(Tender is the Night)"

"I would rather risk failure than achieve it without risk."

"It takes a wise man to discover a wise man."

"men are undoubtedly more in danger from prosperity than from adversity. for when matters go smoothly, they flatter themselves, and are intoxicated by their success"

"I hate wise men because they are lazy, cowardly, and prudent. To the philosophers' equanimity, which makes them indifferent to both pleasure and pain, I prefer devouring passions. The sage knows neither the tragedy of passion, nor the fear of death, nor risk and enthusiasm, nor barbaric, grotesque, or sublime heroism. He talks in proverbs and gives advice. He does not live, feel, desire, wait for anything. He levels down all the incongruities of life and then suffers the consequences. So much more complex is the man who suffers from limitless anxiety. The wise man's life is empty and sterile, for it is free from contradiction and despair. An existence full of irreconcilable contradictions is so much richer and creative. The wise man's resignation springs from inner void, not inner fire. I would rather die of fire than of void."

"It takes 43 muscles to frown and 3 to raise the middle finger."

"We are exactly where we have chosen to be."

"Human nature is all alike."

"A wise man is able to differentiate between humility and weakness, he does not mistake courage for pride."

"Feel not obliged to make good use of every ripe fruit on the vine."

"You call forth the world which God has formed and that world only. Nor is this life of yours by which you set such store your doing, however you may choose to tell it. Its shape was forced in the void at the onset and all talk of what might otherwise have been is senseless for there is no otherwise. Of what could it be made? Where be hid? Or how make its appearance? The probability fo the actual is absolute. That we have no power to guess it out beforehand makes it no less certain. That we may imagine alternate histories means nothing at all."

"Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed."

"People who actually have good advice seldom give it voluntarily, instead others seek them out for it. They do not shove it down people's throats just to boost their exaggerated sense of importance."

"Wisdom is not having God's perspective of the whole matter before us, but having God's perspective about what next response will honor Him while keeping us still usable to Him."

"It is much better to die of hunger unhindered by grief and fear than to live affluently beset with worry, dread, suspicion and unchecked desire."

"Die Welt ist von Narren geschaffen, damit Weise in ihr Leben."

"Guts are important. Your guts are what digest things. But it is your brains that tell you which things to swallow and which not to swallow."

"The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and a virtuous people."

"Whoever lost the truth has lost him/her self."

"If we deny the thirst of love, we stand to lose the last known address of the stranger whithin us."