Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement.

The English are a nation of consummate cant.

Once and for all, there are many things I choose not to know.--Wisdom sets limits even to knowledge.

Your educators can only be your liberators.

To those human beings who are of any concern to me, I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill treatment, indignities, profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, and the wretchedness of the vanquished.

There are the terrible ones who carry about in themselves the beast of prey, and have no choice except lusts or self-laceration. And even their lusts are self-laceration.

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.