Light for some time to come will have to be called darkness.

I want to know whether you are a person devoted to creating or to exchanging in some respect or other: as a creator you belong tothe free, as an exchanger you are their slave and instrument.

The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.

He who possesseth little is so much the less possessed. Blessed be moderate poverty!

Whoever gives advice to the sick gains a sense of superiority over them, no matter whether his advice is accepted or rejected. That is why sick people who are sensitive and proud hate their advisors even more than their illnesses.

A noble soul is not the one that can manage the highest flights but the one that rises very little and falls very little but always dwells in a free, resplendent atmosphere and altitude.

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.