Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry.

The ruling power is always faced with the question, ‘In such and such circumstances, what would you do?’, whereas the opposition is not obliged to take responsibility or make any real decisions.

Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.

it was only a hopeless fantasy, it passed like an april day, but a look and a word and the dreams they stirred they have stolen my heart away.

...every human being is doomed to die, which is the greatest of all failures.

No one is patriotic about taxes.

The more intelligent, the less sane