Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.

Everything that happens, happens of necessity.

Money alone is absolutely good, because it is not only a concrete satisfaction of one need in particular; it is an abstract satisfaction of all.

At bottom, every state regards another as a gang of robbers who will fall upon it as soon as there is an opportunity.

Man shows his character best in trifles.

Time is that in which all things pass away.

Pride works _from within_; it is the direct appreciation of oneself. Vanity is the desire to arrive at this appreciation indirectly, from without.