What people commonly call fate is mostly their own stupidity.

I know of no more beautiful prayer than that which the Hindus of old used in closing: May all that have life be delivered from suffering.

Life is a task to be done. It is a fine thing to say defunctus est; it means that the man has done his task.

Man is never happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something which he thinks will make him so.

The beard, being a half-mask, should be forbidden by the police - It is, moreover, as a sexual symbol in the middle of the face, obscene: that is why it pleases women.

Human life, like all inferior goods, is covered on the outside with a false glitter; what suffers always conceals itself.

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.