What now on the other hand makes people sociable is their incapacity to endure solitude and thus themselves.

The old woman dies, the burden is lifted.

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.

Pantheism is only a polite form of atheism.

Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts.

There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry, high life.

A man who has not enough originality to think out a new title for his book will be much less capable of giving it new contents.