Pity is the most agreeable feeling among those who have little pride and no prospects of great conquests.

I am really very, very tired of everything - more than tired.

Once and for all, there are many things I choose not to know.--Wisdom sets limits even to knowledge.

The sensible author writes for no other posterity than his own--that is, for his age--so as to be able even then to take pleasurein himself.

Those who create are hard of heart.

A refined nature is vexed by knowing that some one owes it thanks, a coarse nature by knowing that it owes thanks to some one.

Morality in Europe today is herd-morality