A vacuum of ideas affects people differently than a vacuum of air, otherwise readers of books would be constantly collapsing.

There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.

It is a great shame; most of our words are misused tools / which often still smell of the mud in which previous owners / desecrated them.

The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done.

Everyone should study at least enough philosophy and belles-lettres to make his sexual experience more delectable.

Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all.

What you have been obliged to discover by yourself leaves a path in your mind which you can use again when the need arises.