When you say you are in love with humanity, you are well satisfied with yourself.

Pretending is a virtue. If you cant pretend, you can't be king.

Man never reasons so much and becomes so introspective as when he suffers; since he is anxious to get at the cause of his sufferings, to learn who has produced them, and whether it is just or unjust that he should have to bear them.

Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

We're like so many puppets hung on the wall, waiting for someone to come and move us or make us talk.

Phantoms in general are nothing more than trifling disorders of the spirit; images we cannot contain within the bounds of sleep.

None of us can estimate what we do when we do it from instinct.