When the State withers, humanity flowers.
Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him?
I wrote much because I was paid little. I had no great desire to leave a literary name behind me.
Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.
Translation is not a matter of words only: it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture.
Life's only choosing when to die. Life's a big postponement because the choice is so difficult. It's a tremendous relief not to have to choose.