Some lack the fickleness to live as they wish and just live as they have begun.

I would rather be sick than idle.

The deep waters of time will flow over us: only a few men of genius will lift a head above the surface, and though doomed eventually to pass into the same silence, will fight against oblivion and for a long time hold their own.

Philosophy is good advice, and no one gives good advice at the top of his lungs.

The evil which assails us is not in the localities we inhabit but in ourselves. We lack strength to endure the least task, being incapable of suffering pain, powerless to enjoy pleasure, impatient with everything. How many invoke death when, after having tried every sort of change, they find themselves reverting to the same sensations, unable to discover any new experience.

Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.