1. She loves as much as she irritates.
2. You forget, I exist. And I forget, you don't.
3. Those who don't share your faith are not therefore faithless.
4. Running to his father, the boy says, forgive me the sin of being born.
5. Life— ah, how beautiful! alas, how dead!
6. Black in a sea of white, crow in snow.
7. A shop is known by its customers.
8. In love, the body is better— the mind creates too much trouble!
9. To run a country requires intelligence, along with consciencelessness.
10. When someone you like breaks their word, it's called "circumstantial necessity." When someone you dislike breaks their word, it's called "calculated deception."
11. When someone says, "Every sensible person..." they're really talking about themselves.
12. If you dislike hard work, marry someone rich. If you like love, marry someone unemployed.
13. What's the point of boasting about character to someone seeking the characterless?
14. People prefer subordinates who lack talent and accept this fact with bowed heads.
15. The old love and fear the young simultaneously, for the young remind the old of their aging.
16. There's no greater folly than falling in love with a woman who has more problems than you do.
17. Remember, there's only one hero— everyone else follows.
18. Fools fail alone, the intelligent fail collectively.
19. Sex complicates love, and love complicates sex.
20. People sleep with their wives, stay awake with other women.