Collection of phrases and quotes about life.
Life is a game of terrible odds; if it were a bet, you wouldn't get involved in it.
When you're twenty, you think you've solved the enigma of the world; at thirty, you reflect on it, and at forty, you discover that it's insoluble.
One cannot have any other task in life than to preserve it until death.
No wise man ever wished to be young.
Arbitrary power constitutes a natural temptation for a prince, like wine or women for a young man, or bribery for a judge, or greed for the old, or vanity for a woman.
It's okay for women to cry, for men to remember.
For those who aspire to power, there is no middle ground between the summit and the precipice.
Power obtained by wrongful means was never exercised for good purposes.
Power is never stable when it is unlimited.
Nature grants freedom even to animals.
A honorable death is better than a shameful life.
If you cry because you've lost the sun, the tears won't let you see the stars.