What makes people hard-hearted is this, that each man has, or fancies he has, as much as he can bear in his own troubles.

Animals learn death first at the moment of death;...man approaches death with the knowledge it is closer every hour, and this creates a feeling of uncertainty over his life, even for him who forgets in the business of life that annihilation is awaiting him. It is for this reason chiefly that we have philosophy and religion.

Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle.

It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.

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

Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are its tormented souls.

If at any moment Time stays his hand, it is only when we are delivered over to the miseries of boredom.