It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.

A man would still do something out of sheer perversity - he would create destruction and chaos - just to gain his point...and if all this could in turn be analyzed and prevented by predicting that it would occur, then man would deliberately go mad to prove his point.

My friend, the truth is always implausible, did you know that? To make the truth more plausible, it's absolutely necessary to mix a bit of falsehood with it. People have always done so.

Every man looks out for himself, and he has the happiest life who manages to hoodwink himself best of all.

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

Sometimes a man is intensely, even passionately, attached to suffering — that is a fact.

One must first learn to live oneself before one blames others.