Honest men live on charity in their age; the almshouses are full of men who never stole a copper penny. Honest men are the fools and the saints.

If genetic memory or racial memory persists, is it possible that individual memory also exists from previous lives?

A wise man distrusts his neighbor. A wiser man distrusts both his neighbor and himself. The wisest man of all distrusts his government.

I have been constantly betrayed and deceived all my life.

Even the most malignant gods would not continue to inflict life upon humanity, time without end.

I have had four happy days in my life, and three of them turned out to be illusions.

I never deviated from my grim determination to someday have all the money I needed and wanted.