Among the wealthy, generosity is often merely a kind of shyness.

Whoever deliberately attempts to insure confidentiality with another person is usually in doubt as to whether he inspires that person's confidence in him. One who is sure that he inspires confidence attaches little importance to confidentiality.

I still live, I still think: I still have to live, for I still have to think.

The belief in authority is the source of conscience; which is therefore not the voice of God in the heart of man, but the voice of some men in man.

Error has made animals into men; is truth in a position to make men into animals again?

Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he guards against them.

The danger in happiness - "Now everything is turning out right for me; from now on i'll love every turn of fate - Who wants to be my fate?