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

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

First the truth is ridiculed. Then it meets outrage. Then it is said to have been obvious all along.

A man can surely do what he wills to do, but cannot determine what he wills.

Many books serve merely to show how many ways there are of being wrong, and how far astray you yourself would go if you followed their guidance. You should read only when your own thoughts dry up.

...nothing at all rides on the life or death of the individual.

Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.