For in me there have always been two fools, among others, one asking nothing better than to stay where he is and the other imagining that life might be slightly less horrible a little further on.

If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead.

They never lynch children, babies, no matter what they do they are whitewashed in advance.

There is at least this to be said for mind, that it can dispel mind.

Absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is, let alone the dullness of it and the pomposities of it.

You're on earth. There's no cure for that.

Don't touch me! Don't question me! Don't speak to me! Stay with me!