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

Human existence is an error...it is bad today and every day it gets worse, until the worst happens.

The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.

To gain anything we have longed for is only to discover how vain and empty it is; and even though we are always living in expectation of better things, at the same time we often repent and long to have the past back again.

A major difficulty in translation is that a word in one language seldom has a precise equivalent in another one.

The shortness of life, so often lamented, may be the best thing about it.

Life is a constant process of dying.