If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice of how he acts when he loses money.

Power ... is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.

A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams.

We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.

With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him; either because he seems too mediocre for anything so great, or, on the contrary, too precious to be destroyed.

You could not be born at a better period than the present, when we have lost everything.

On reaching a certain degree of pain we lose the world.