Children find everything in nothing; men find nothing in everything.
Men do not so much hate an evil-doer, or evil itself, as they hate the man who calls evil by its real name.
No one is so completely disenchanted with the world, or knows it so thoroughly, or is so utterly disgusted with it, that when it begins to smile upon him he does not become partially reconciled to it.
The most solid pleasure in this life is the empty pleasure of illusion.
Ignorance is the greatest source of happiness.
He who has the courage to laugh is almost as much a master of the world as he who is ready to die.