He soon felt that the fulfillment of his desires gave him only one grain of the mountain of happiness he had expected. This fulfillment showed him the eternal error men make in imagining that their happiness depends on the realization of their desires.

Every man and every living creature has a sacred right to the gladness of springtime.

Everything intelligent is so boring.

One must be cunning and wicked in this world.

When ignorance does not know something, it says that what it does not know is stupid.

Violence produces only something resembling justice, but it distances people from the possibility of living justly, without violence.

Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.