There is nothing worse than giving the longest of legs to the smallest of ideas.

Let Pascal say that man is a thinking reed. He is wrong; man is a thinking erratum. Each period in life is a new edition that corrects the preceding one and that in turn will be corrected by the next, until publication of the definitive edition, which the publisher donates to the worms.

Dreams disdain fine lines and finishing touches on landscapes – they content themselves with thick but representative brushstrokes.

A vida sem luta é um mar morto no centro do organismo universal.

In ordinary life, the action of a third party does not free the contractor from an obligation; but the advantage of making a contract with heaven is that intentions are valid currency.

He felt that there is a loose balance of good and evil, and that the art of living consists in getting the greatest good out of the greatest evil.

Some actions are even baser than the people who commit them.