For who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment's human suffering

You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

Have you noticed that only death arouses our emotions? How we love thee friends who have just passed away, right? How we admire those master who no longer speak, their mouths full of dirt. We them we are not obligated.

Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.

Whoever gives nothing, has nothing. The greatest misfortune is not to be unloved, but not to love.

On good days, if you trust life, life has to answer you.

Our reason has driven all away. Alone at last, we end up ruling over a desert.