To venture upon an undertaking of any kind, even the most insignificant, is to sacrifice to envy.
No matter which way we go, it is no better than any other. It is all the same whether you achieve something or not, have faith or not, just as it is all the same whether you cry or remain silent.
In order to have the stuff of a tyrant, a certain mental derangement is necessary.
We have lost, being born, as much as we shall lose dying: Everything!
The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself.
A self-respecting man is a man without a country. A fatherland is birdlime.