Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.

A regret understood by no one: the regret to be a pessimist. It’s not easy to be on the wrong foot with life.

Tyrants are always assassinated too late. That is their great excuse.

We have lost, being born, as much as we shall lose dying: Everything!

In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world.

We are born to exist, not to know, to be, not to assert ourselves.

Basis of society: anonymous sweat.