If you teach a man anything, he will never learn.

All roads end at the grave, which is the gate to nothingness.

The first prison I ever saw had inscribed on it CEASE TO DO EVIL: LEARN TO DO WELL; but as the inscription was on the outside, the prisoners could not read it.

Martyrdom is the only path to immortality that requires no talent whatsoever.

Deep knowledge is not knowledge of the thing itself, but knowledge of a thing like the thing. Then, you gain not one knowledge, but two knowledges. Of the thing. And of the original thing with is like the thing. Which is the barbarism of the privileged class.

What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance: it doesn’t come every day.

A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.