Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.

Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.

Life is full of troubles and vexations, that one must either rise above it by means of corrected thoughts, or leave it.

Every genius is a great child; he gazes out at the world as something strange, a spectacle, and therefore with purely objective interest

Hence, in all countries the chief occupation of society is card-playing, and it is the gauge of its value, and an outward sign that it is bankrupt in thought. Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another’s money. Idiots!

If a relationship is perfectly natural there will be a complete fusion of the happiness of both of you-owing to fellow-feeling and various other laws which govern our natures, this is, quite simply, the greatest happiness that can exist.

Scoundrels are always sociable.