I find just as much profit in cultivating my hates as my loves.

A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned

In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime.

Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.

I am lost if I attempt to take count of chronology. When I think over the past, I am like a person whose eyes cannot properly measure distances and is liable to think things extremely remote which on examination prove to be quite near.

When intelligent people pride themselves on not understanding, it is quite natural they should succeed better than fools.

Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.