If you lack the power to demoralize yourself along with the age, to go as low and as far, do not complain of being misunderstood by it.

Philosophy is a corrective against sadness. Yet there still are people who believe in the profundity of philosophy!

The Art of Love: knowing how to combine the temperament of a vampire with the discretion of an anemone.

Fear can supplant our real problems only to the extent -unwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust it -we perpetuate it within ourselves like a temptation and enthrone it at the very heart of our solitude.

History is nothing but a procession of false Absolutes, a series of temples raised to pretexts, a degradation of the mind before the Improbable.

Not to be born is undoubtedly the best plan of all. Unfortunately, it is within no one's reach.

There is only one thing worse than boredom, and that is the fear of boredom.