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

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

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.

Freedom is the dream you dream While putting thought in chains again --

The most solid pleasure in this life is the empty pleasure of illusion.

Death is not evil, for it frees man from all ills and takes away his desires along with desire's rewards.