We must not obstinately contend against circumstances, but rather let us obey them. We have many projects in life but little determination.

We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

We must not take up arms for vain prospects of grandeur, nor the allurements of conquest.

We cannot escape from the arbitrariness of the judge, unless we place ourselves under the despotism of the law.

In the meantime, it just makes it a little harder to smile. But so does the world.

You're a victim of collision on the open sea / And Buddy no one said life was free.

But my dear, so few things are fulfilled: what are most lives but a series of incomplete episodes