Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law.

He who does not enjoy solitude will not love freedom.

The cause of laughter is simply the sudden perception of the incongruity between a concept and the real project.

Necessity is the constant scourge of the lower classes, ennui of the higher ones.

The inexpressible depth of music, so easy to understand and yet so inexplicable, is due to the fact that it reproduces all the emotions of our innermost being, but entirely without reality and remote from its pain… Music expresses only the quintessence of life and its events, never these themselves.

You are free to do what you want, but you are not free to want what you want.

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.