Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.

If mankind were born tomorrow it would divide into groups; each would scramble to invent their one and only god, and set about butchering each-other.

It would be easier to subjugate the entire universe through force than the minds of a single village.

You are very harsh.' 'I have seen the world.

It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.

Virtue debases itself in justifying itself.

Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.