Every satisfaction he attains lays the seeds of some new desire, so that there is no end to the wishes of each individual will.

I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.

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

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.

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.

Vulgar people take huge delight in the faults and follies of great men.

Man may have the most excellent judgment in all other matters, and yet go wrong in those which concern himself; because here the will comes in and deranges the intellect at once. Therefore let a man take counsel of a friend. A doctor can cure everyone but himself; if he falls ill, he sends for a colleague.