There is only one thing worse than boredom, and that is the fear of boredom.
Shame on the man who goes to his grave escorted by the miserable hopes that have kept him alive.
Discretion is deadly to genius; ruinous to talent.
The wise man, the sage, is hostile to the new. Disabused, he abdicates: that is his form of protest.
In order to have the stuff of a tyrant, a certain mental derangement is necessary.
The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live - moreover, the only one.