When he has lost all hope, all object in life, man becomes a monster in his misery.

The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.

Money is coined liberty.

in the newspapers I read a biography about an American. He left his whole huge fortune to factories and for the positive sciences, his skeleton to the students at the academy there, and his skin to make a drum so as to have the American national anthem drummed on it day and night.

I used to imagine adventures for myself, I invented a life, so that I could at least exist somehow.

I tell you, the old-fashioned doctor who treated all diseases has completely disappeared, now there are only specialists, and they advertise all the time in the newspapers. If your nose hurts, they send you to Paris: there's a European specialist there, he treats noses. You go to Paris, he examines your nose: I can treat only your right nostril, he says, I don't treat left nostrils, it's not my specialty, but after me, go to Vienna, there's a separate specialist there who will finish treating your left nostril.

Man is a pliable animal, a being who gets accustomed to everything!