I never have frustrations. The reason is to wit: Of at first I don't succeed, I quit!

Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.

Wealth is the number of things one can do without.

For if there's no everlasting God, there's no such thing as virtue, and there's no need of it.

Just take a look around you: Blood is flowing in rivers and in such a jolly way you’d think it was champagne.

I tell Thee that man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creatures is born. But only one who can appease their conscience can take over their freedom […] Instead of taking men's freedom from them, Thou didst make it greater than ever! Didst Thou forget that man prefers peace, and even death, to freedom of choice in the knowledge of good and evil?

Don’t let us forget that the causes of human actions are usually immeasurably more complex and varied than our subsequent explanations of them.