Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.

All authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and it degrades those over whom it is exercised.

You must have a cigarette. A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?

In war," answered the weaver, "the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich make slaves of the poor. We must work to live, and they give us such mean wages that we die. We toil for them all day long, and they heap up gold in their coffers, and our children fade away before their time, and the faces of those we love become hard and evil. We tread out the grapes, another drinks the wine. We sow the corn, and our own board is empty. We have chains, though no eye beholds them; and are slaves, though men call us free.

Life is the art of being well deceived, and to succeed, it must be habitual and uninterrupted.

you will always love, and you will always be loved

Life is a nightmare that prevents one from sleeping.