In short, they were gambling on their luck, and luck is not to be coerced.

What’s true of all the evils in the world is true of plague as well. It helps men to rise above themselves.

Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe. The lowest on the social scale have their spouses or their children.

It takes time to live. Like any work of art, life needs to be thought about.

If it adapts itself to what the majority of our society wants, art will be a meaningless recreation.

Betrayal answers betrayal, the mask of love is answered by the disappearance of love.

All healthy men have thought of their own suicide