“Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: routine.”

“The more one judges, the less one loves.”

“All happiness depends on courage and work.”

“And he, like many jaded people, had few pleasures left in life save good food and drink.”

“Cruelty and fear shake hands together. An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.”

“Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.”

“I am convinced that human life is filled with many pure, happy, serene examples of insincerity, truly splendid of their kind-of people deceiving one another without (strangely enough) any wounds be...”

“Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.”

“Over time, hidden truths morph in the dark soil of deceit into something much worse.”

“[H]iding how you really feel and trying to make everyone happy doesn't make you nice, it just makes you a liar.”

“Love is honesty. Love is a mutual respect for one another.”

“The fact that Ridge has been honest in his conversations with me is not something he did wrong. The fact that he has feelings for me also isnt wrong, when you know exactly how much hes fought those...”

“Treachery and violence are a just return for treachery and violence.”

“Treachery though at first very cautious in the end betrays itself.”

“Et tu Brute! (You too Brutus!)”