Sadness is a state of sin.

If one could recover the uncompromising spirit of one's youth, one's greatest indignation would be for what one has become.

Man's responsibility increases as that of the gods decreases.

Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you yourself can obtain.

But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.

In other people's company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.

The truth is that as soon as we are no longer obliged to earn our living, we no longer know what to do with our life and recklessly squander it.