Is all our fire of shipwreck wood?

I think we are inexterminable, like flies and bedbugs.

To hide and feel guilty would be the beginning of defeat.

All the married heiresses I have known have shipwrecked.

It’s the end of the world every day, for someone.

We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.

Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others.

It would be impossible to live for a year without disaster unless one practiced character-reading.

When arms speak, the laws are silent.

It belongs to a nobleman to weep in an hour of disaster.

Pride and excess bring disaster for man.

All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.

Why listen to me? I can only predict epidemics and plagues.