Most celebrated men live in a condition of prostitution.
Nothing is more painful to me than the disdain with which people treat second-rate authors, as if there were room only for the first-raters.
What signifies the ladder, provided one rise and attain the end?
Since it is necessary to have enemies, let us endeavour to have those who do us honour.
There are people whose clocks stop at a certain point in their lives.
Despair itself if it goes on long enough, can become a kind of sanctuary in which one settles down and feels at ease.