One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

I have never fought in such a way as to say: I am the true Christian, others are not Christians.

If you want to be loathsome to God, just run with the herd.

To grumble about the world and its unhappiness is always easier than to beat one's breast and groan over oneself.

Pain reconciles one to existence. Infinite resignation is that shirt in the old fable. The thread is spun with tears, bleached by tears, the shirt sewn in tears, but then it also gives better protection than iron. The secret in life is that everyone must sew it for himself.

Genius never desires what does not exist.

To the frivolous Christianity is certainly not glad tidings, for it wishes first of all to make them serious.