When we have to change our mind about a person, we hold the inconvenience he causes us very much against him.

Everything that has been is eternal: the sea will wash it up again.

Every man has his price. This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing. To win over certain people to something, it is only necessary to give it a gloss of love of humanity, nobility, gentleness, self-sacrifice - and there is nothing you cannot get them to swallow. To their souls, these are the icing, the tidbit; other kinds of souls have others.

Scholarship has the same relationship to wisdom as righteousness has to holiness: it is cold and dry, it is loveless and knows nodeep feelings of inadequacy or longing.

Every habit makes our hand more witty and our wit less handy.

Can an ass be tragic?--To perish under a burden that one can neither bear nor cast off? The case of the philosopher.

We have art in order not to die of the truth.