Man is almost always as wicked as his needs require.

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.

If the best company is that which we leave feeling most satisfied with ourselves, it follows that it is the company we leave most bored.

Ignorance is the greatest source of happiness.

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

What do you do there, moon, in the sky? Tell me what you do, silent moon. When evening comes you rise and go contemplating wastelands; then you set.