Even the most beautiful scenery is no longer assured of our love after we have lived in it for three months, and some distant coast attracts our avarice: possessions are generally diminished by possession.

The best friend will probably acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is founded on the talent for friendship.

What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father.

Compulsion precedes morality, indeed morality itself is compulsion for a time, to which one submits for the avoidance of pain.

It is not when it is dangerous to tell the truth that its advocates are hardest to find, but when it is boring.

Nothing is more pathological in our pathological modernity than this disease of Christian pity.

Against boredom even gods struggle in vain.