And many such good inventions are there, that they are like woman's breasts: useful at the same time, and pleasant.

Whoever commits to paper what he suffers becomes a melancholy author: but he becomes a serious author when he tells us what he suffered and why he now reposes in joy.

Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.

He who climbeth on the highest mountains, laugheth at all tragic plays and tragic realities.

I am almost equal to a shadow.

What someone is, begins to be revealed when his talent abates, when he stops showing us what he can do.

To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence.