Discretion is deadly to genius; ruinous to talent.
My mission is to see things as they are. Exactly contrary of a mission.
What a pity that 'nothingness' has been devalued by an abuse of it made by philosophers unworthy of it!
The importance of insomnia is so colossal that I am tempted to define man as the animal who cannot sleep. Why call him a rational animal when other animals are equally reasonable? But there is not another animal in the entire creation that wants to sleep yet cannot.
Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.
We interest others by the misfortune we spread around us.