A bad conscience is easier to cope with than a bad reputation.

In some remote corner of the universe, poured out and glittering among innumerable solar systems, there once was a star on which clever animals invented knowledge.

I conjure you, my brethren, to remain faithful to earth, and do not believe those who speak unto you of super terrestrial hopes! Poisoners they are, whether they know it or not.

It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.

Those who are failures from the start, downtrodden, crushed -- it is they, the weakest, who must undermine life among men, who call into question and poison most dangerously our trust in life, in man, and in ourselves.

I have not come to know atheism as a result of logical reasoning and still less as an event in my life: in me it is a matter of instinct.

Fall down seven times, stand up eight. - Chinese proverbWithout music, life would be a mistake.