But there must be some pleasure in condemning everything--in perceiving faults where others think they see beauties.' 'You mean there is pleasure in having no pleasure.

Changing a habit is hard work. But it's harder to find work that would be more fulfilling

I know of nothing more laughable than a doctor who does not die of old age.

The composition of a tragedy requires testicles.

Man is free at the instant he wants to be.

We offer up prayers to god only because we have made him after our own image. We treat him like a pasha, or a sultan, who is capable of being exasperated and appeased.

Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.