The Universe is a dream dreamed by a single dreamer where all the dream characters dream too.

Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes.

It would be better if there were nothing. Since there is more pain than pleasure on earth, every satisfaction is only transitory, creating new desires and new distresses, and the agony of the devoured animal is always far greater than the pleasure of the devourer

Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.

Man is the only animal who causes pain to others with no other object than wanting to do so.

Dissimulation is innate in woman, and almost as much a quality of the stupid as of the clever.

I am often surprised by the cleverness, and now and again by the stupidity, of my dog; and I have similar experiences with mankind.