Two times two will be four even without my will. Is that what you call man's free will?

A cultivated and decent man cannot be vain without setting a fearfully high standard for himself, and without despising and almost hating himself at certain moments.

Nothing is more seductive for a man than his freedom of conscience, but nothing is a greater cause of suffering.

From a hundred rabbits you can't make a horse.

But I always liked side-paths, little dark back-alleys behind the main road- there one finds adventures and surprises, and precious metal in the dirt.

A single day is sufficient for a man to discover what happiness is.

This pleasure comes precisely from the sharpest awareness of your own degradation; from the knowledge that you have gone to the utmost limit; that it is despicable, yet cannot be otherwise; that you no longer have any way out; that you will never become a different man.