My time has not yet come either; some are born posthumously.

There is no more dreary or more repulsive creature than the man who has evaded his genius.

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.

The man who sees little always sees less than there is to see; the man who hears badly always hears something more than there is to hear.

Jealous is every virtue of the others, and a dreadful thing is jealousy. Even virtues may succumb by jealousy.

Whoever wants to set a good example must add a grain of foolishness to his virtue: then others can imitate and yet at the same time surpass the one they imitate-which human beings love to do.