Only it takes time to be happy. A lot of time. Happiness, too, is a long patience.

Everybody knows life isn't worth living.

The best are led to make greater demands upon themselves. As for those who succumb, they did not deserve to survive.

A man wants to earn money in order to be happy, and his whole effort and the best of a life are devoted to the earning of that money. Happiness is forgotten; the means are taken for the end.

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.

but perhaps we should love what we cannot understand

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.