How can we explain the perpetuity of envy--a vice which yields no return?

Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance

Those who spend too fast never grow rich.

Bankers are lynxes. To expect any gratitude from them is equivalent to attempting to move the wolves of the Ukraine to pity in the middle of winter.

Life cannot go on without much forgetting.

There are words which cut like steel.

Intuition, like the rays of the sun, acts only in an inflexibly straight line; it can guess right only on condition of never diverting its gaze; the freaks of chance disturb it.