Children find everything in nothing; men find nothing in everything.

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.

The old man, especially if he is in society in the privacy of his thoughts, though he may protest the opposite, never stops believing that, through some singular exception of the universal rule, he can in some unknown and inexplicable way still make an impression on women.

Old age is the supreme evil, for it deprives man of all pleasures while allowing his appetites to remain, and it brings with it every possible sorrow. Yet men fear death and desire old age.

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

Nothing in the world is so rare as a person one can always put up with.

He who doubts, knows - knows as much as can be known.