Dying is nothing. What's terrible is not to live.
A stand can be made against invasion by an army; no stand can be made against invasion by an idea.
When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.
Too much improvisation leaves the mind stupidly void.
To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.
I'd like a drink. I desire to forget life. Life is a hideous invention by somebody I don't know. It doesn't last, and it's good for nothing. You break your neck simply living.