As an artist one has no home in Europe except in Paris.
One must repay good and ill; but why just to the person who did us good or ill?
When one has not had a good father, one must create one.
Pity aims just as little at the pleasure of others as malice at the pain of others Per-Se.
To regard states of distress in general as an objection, as something which must be abolished is the greatest nonsense on earth; having the most disastrous consequences, fatally stupid- almost as stupid as a wish to abolish bad weather - out of pity for the poor.
Whoever gives advice to a sick person acquires a feeling of superiority over him, whether the advice be accepted or rejected.