Wisdom disguises our wounds; it teaches us how to bleed in secret.

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

Anyone who speaks in the name of others is always an impostor.

To think is to take a cunning revenge in which we camouflage our baseness and conceal our lower instincts.

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

Try to be free: you will die of hunger.

Do I look like someone who has something to do here on earth?' —That's what I'd like to answer the busybodies who inquire into my activities.