A sub-clerk in the post office is the equal of a conqueror if consciousness is common to them. All experiences are indifferent in this regard. There are some that do either a service or a disservice to man. They do him a service if he is conscious. Otherwise, that has no importance: a man's failures imply judgment, not of circumstances, but of himself.

To begin with, poor people´s memory is less nourished than that of a rich; it has fewer landmarks in space because they seldom leave the place where they live, and fewer reference points in time throughtout lives that are grey and featureless.

Always go too far, because that's where you'll find the truth

The important thing isn't the soundness or otherwise of the argument, but for it to make you think.

Man cannot do without beauty, and this is what our era pretends to want to disregard.

A sub-clerk in the post-office is the equal of a conqueror if consciousness is common to them.

Only he who is uncompromising as to his rights maintains the sense of duty.