A man must have grown old and lived long in order to see how short life is.

All religions promise a reward beyond life, in eternity, for excellences of the will or heart, but none for excellences of the head or understanding.

The life of every individual is really always a tragedy, but gone through in detail, it has the character of a comedy.

To truth only a brief celebration of victory is allowed between the two long periods during which it is condemned as paradoxical, or disparaged as trivial.

Boredom is an evil that is not to be estimated lightly. It can come in the end to real despair. The public authority takes precautions against it everywhere, as against other universal calamities.

No one can transcend their own individuality.

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.