My body and my will are one.

For it is a matter of daily observation that people take the greatest pleasure in that which satisfies their vanity; and vanity cannot be satisfied without comparison with others.

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

To buy books would be a good thing if we could also buy the time to read them; but the purchase of books is often mistaken for the assimilation and mastering of their contents.

It is a clumsy experiment to make; for it involves the destruction of the very consciousness which puts the question and awaits the answer.

We should comfort ourselves with the masterpieces of art as with exalted personages-stand quietly before them and wait till they speak to us.

If God made the world, I would not be that God, for the misery of the world would break my heart.