“When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.”

Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.

As a rule, only the poor are generous.

Everybody all over the world takes a wife’s estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.

Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.

People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.

A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.

Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman’s destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.

A jealous husband doesnt doubt his wife, but himself.

Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man.

A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.

The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.

Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.

Those who spend too fast never grow rich.

As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative.

Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.

To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals – that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.

This is war, but we can’t attack just keep your distance.

Martial arts is for defense. It’s not for attacking. So when people are fighting, always, always, defend.

Always attack. Even in defense, attack. The attacking arm possesses the initiative and thus commands the action. To attack makes men brave; to defend makes them timorous.

Focus on impact, not approval. If you believe you can change the world, which I hope you do, do what you believe is right and expect resistance and expect attackers. Keep calm and carry on!

The best way to counter-attack a hater is to make it blatantly obvious that their attack has had no impact on you.

President Obama attacks success and therefore under President Obama we have less success and I will change that.

The only true solution would be a convention under which all the governments would bind themselves to defend collectively any country that was attacked.

Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.