Necessity is the constant scourge of the lower classes, ennui of the higher ones.

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

Happiness of any given life is to be measured, not by its joys and pleasures, but by the extent to which it has been free from suffering-from positive evil.

We will gradually become indifferent to what goes on in the minds of other people when we acquire a knowledge of the superficial nature of their thoughts, the narrowness of their views and of the number of their errors. Whoever attaches a lot of value to the opinions of others pays them too much honor.

Sexual passion is the cause of war and the end of peace, the basis of what is serious... and consequently the concentration of all desire

Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.