He who has the courage to laugh is almost as much a master of the world as he who is ready to die.
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.
The end of pain we take as happiness.
Man is almost always as wicked as his needs require.
Freedom is the dream you dream While putting thought in chains again --
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.