One must learn to be a sponge if one wants to be loved by hearts that overflow.

Happiness is a fata morgana. the only way to not end up unhappy is to not long for happiness.

You have not yet suffered enough! For you suffer only from yourselves, you have not yet suffered from man.

Life is an instinct for growth, for survival, for the accumulation of forces, for power.

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.

I no longer want to walk on worn soles.

A man who is very busy seldom changes his opinions.