“A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.” — Michel de Montaigne Quote

A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.

I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.

I, who boast of embracing the pleasures of life so assiduously and so particularly, find in them, when I look at them thus minutely, virtually nothing but wind. But what of it? We are all wind.

He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.

He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.

I met John Lennon and he was with his wife in Tokyo. I met him there.

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

No man knows the value of innocence and integrity but he who has lost them.