You may be deceived if you trust too much but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough.

In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or the next laid to my charge.

He passes from lyric to epic poetry in order to speak about the world and the torment in the world through man rationally and emotionally. The poet then becomes a danger.

The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. The one that gives philosophy peace so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question.

It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.

Marriage is the torment of one the felicity of two the strife and enmity of three.

Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.

It's extremely hard for athletes to accept what's happened to them sometimes. It's hard to be beaten by a small margin and I've spoken with athletes who for years afterward have been tormented by the knowledge that had they done something ever so slightly different they could have been one-ten-thousandth of a second quicker.

The jealous are troublesome to others but a torment to themselves.

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.