Men seldom act from a correct sense of what may be harmful or useful to them.

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

It's not our disadvantages or shortcomings that are ridiculous, but rather the studious way we try to hide them, and our desire to act as if they did not exist.

Man is doomed either squander his youth, which is the only time he has to store provisions for the coming years and provide for his own well-being, or to spend his youth procuring pleasures in advance for that time of life when he will be too old to enjoy them.

Irresolute men are sometimes very persistent in their undertakings, because if they give up their designs they would have to make a second resolution.

The artist's conception of his art or the scientist's of his science is usually as great as his conception of his own worth is small.

The thought that really crushes us is the thought of the futility of life of which death is the visible manifestation.