It is difficult, if not impossible, to define the limit of our reasonable desires in respect of possessions.

All wanting comes from need, therefore from lack, therefore from suffering.

This is the case with many learned persons; they have read themselves stupid.

That I could clamber to the frozen moon. And draw the ladder after me.

If a man sets out to hate all the miserable creatures he meets, he will not have much energy left for anything else; whereas he can despise them, one and all, with the greatest ease.

Console yourself by remembering that the world doesn't deserve your affection.

Our civilized world is nothing but a great masquerade. You encounter knights, parsons, soldiers, doctors, lawyers, priests, philosophers and a thousand more: but they are not what they appear - they are merely masks... Usually, as I say, there is nothing but industrialists, businessmen and speculators concealed behind all these masks.