Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.

We should comfort ourselves with the masterpieces of art as with exalted personages-stand quietly before them and wait till they speak to us.

People of Wealth and the so called upper class suffer the most from boredom.

Everybody's friend is nobody's.

Means at our disposal should be regarded as a bulwark against the many evils and misfortunes that can occur. We should not regard such wealth as a permission or even an obligation to procure for ourselves the pleasures of the world.

Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.

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