Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.
Most of my life has been one tragedy after another, most of which hasn't happened.
Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.
I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.
I am convinced that everything has come down to us from the banks of the Ganges, astronomy, astrology, metempsychosis, etc. It does not behoove us, who were only savages and barbarians when these Indians and Chinese peoples were civilized and learned, to dispute their antiquity.
Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous.