To feel envy is human, to savour schadenfreude is devilish

What a person is for himself, what abides with him in his loneliness and isolation, and what no one can give or take away from him, this is obviously more essential for him than everything that he possesses or what he may be in the eyes of others.

Every satisfaction he attains lays the seeds of some new desire, so that there is no end to the wishes of each individual will.

Life is a language in which certain truths are conveyed to us; if we could learn them in some other way, we should not live.

No one writes anything worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject.

In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.

The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.