It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.

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

The greatest intellectual capacities are only found in connection with a vehement and passionate will.

There is only one inborn error. and that is the notion that we exist in order to be happy.

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

I constantly saw the false and the bad, and finally the absurd and the senseless, standing in universal admiration and honour.

To desire immortality is to desire the eternal perpetuation of a great mistake