Indifference is the revenge the world takes on mediocrities.
The past could always be annihilated. Regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future was inevitable.
Philosophy is like a normal personal organizer, but it's smaller than a matchbox.
The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it.
I have invented an invaluable permanent invalid called Bunbury, in order that I may be able to go down into the country whenever I choose.
The gods are strange. It is not our vices only they make instruments to scourge us. They bring us to ruin through what in us is good, gentle, humane, loving.