The Jews are of all peoples the grosses, the most ferocious, the most fanatical, and the most absurd.

Martin in particular concluded that man was born to live either in the convulsions of misery, or in the lethargy of boredom.

History consists of a series of accumulated imaginative inventions.

I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.

If one does not reflect, one thinks oneself master of everything; but when one does reflect, one realizes that one is master of nothing.

Most of my life has been one tragedy after another, most of which hasn't happened.

History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead.