Who Rebels? Who rises in arms? Rarely the slave, but almost always the oppressor turned slave.

If we manage to last in spite of everything, it is because our infirmities are so many and so contradictory that they cancel each other out.

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.

We interest others by the misfortune we spread around us.

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

The universal view melts things into a blur.

As long as one believes in philosophy, one is healthy; sickness begins when one starts to think.