You want to be paid as well, you virtuous! You want reward for virtue, and heaven for earth, and eternity for your today?

Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.

If one seeks relief from unbearable pressure, one is to eat hashish.

We cannot live without valuing: but we can live without valuing what you value.

To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality.

In some remote corner of the universe, poured out and glittering among innumerable solar systems, there once was a star on which clever animals invented knowledge.

Whoever commits to paper what he suffers becomes a melancholy author: but he becomes a serious author when he tells us what he suffered and why he now reposes in joy.