For the world is Hell, and men are on the one hand the tormented souls and on the other the devils in it.

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.

In many cases hate a person is rooted in the involuntary estimate of its virtues.

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world. This is an error of the intellect as inevitable as that error of the eye which lets you fancy that on the horizon heaven and earth meet.

The majority of men... are not capable of thinking, but only of believing, and... are not accessible to reason, but only to authority.

There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry, high life.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.