Pity aims just as little at the pleasure of others as malice at the pain of others Per-Se.

Show me that you are redeemed, and I will believe in your Redeemer.

Either one does not dream, or one does so interestingly. One should learn to spend one's waking life in the same way: not at all, or interestingly.

There is no pre-established harmony between the furtherance of truth and the well-being of mankind.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.

One should not wish to enjoy where one does not give joy.