My boy! Smoking is one of the greatest and cheapest enjoyments in life, and if you decide in advance not to smoke, i can only feel sorry for you.

The world is no nursery.

The idea of life having a purpose stands and falls with the religious system.

A string of reproaches against other people leads one to suspect the existence of a string of self-reproaches with the same content.

Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.

The only person with whom you have to compare ourselves, is that you in the past. And the only per-son better you should be, this is who you are now.

We are so made that we can derive intense enjoyment only from a contrast.