Exhaustion is the shortest way to equality and fraternity.

Today a man of knowledge might well feel as though he were God transformed into an animal.

But let me open up my heart to you completely, my friends: if there were gods, how could I bear not being a god! Hence, there areno gods. I drew this conclusion, to be sure--but now it draws me.

We must beware of one who is in a passion against us as of one who has once sought our life; for the fact that we still live is due to the absence of power to kill, - if looks could kill, we should have been dead long ago.

It was a subtle refinement of God to learn Greek when he wished to write a book – and that he did not learn it better.

A man far oftener appears to have a decided character from persistently following his temperament than from persistently following his principles.

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