He who has the courage to laugh is almost as much a master of the world as he who is ready to die.

Men are ready to suffer anything from others or from heaven itself, provided that, when it comes to words, they are untouched.

No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life, and gets less, than intolerance.

The end of pain we take as happiness.

Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the world; since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces real hatred of mankind.

There are some centuries which - apart from everything else - in the art and other disciplines presume to remake everything because they know how to make nothing.

I may be wrong, but it seems rare in our age to find a widely praised person whose own mouth is not the source of that praise.