"When you stab a man, you stab him once; when you stab a woman, you stab her a thousand times."

"Misfortune is needed to plumb certain mysterious depths in the understanding of men; pressure is needed to explode the charge. My captivity concentrated all my faculties on a single point. They had pr…"

"How can we expect a man to be as good as his word when he has no good word in him?"

"Man is an enigma, and he can only be solved by himself."

"The greatest events of history are often brought about by the most trivial causes."