Many people, especially women, never experience boredom because they have never learned to work properly.

There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it.

I am too inquisitive, too skeptical, too arrogant, to let myself be satisfied with an obvious and crass solution of things. God is such an obvious and crass solution; a solution which is a sheer indelicacy to us thinkers - at bottom He is really nothing but a coarse commandment against us: ye shall not think!

What is more harmful than any vice? Practical sympathy and pity for all the failures and all the weak : Christianity.

Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.

The good four. Honest with ourselves and with whatever is friend to us; courageous toward the enemy; generous toward the vanquished; polite-always that is how the four cardinal virtues want us.

Men should learn to live with the same seriousness with which children play.