» Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
» To be one's own master is to be the slave of self.
» Eternity -- waste of time.
» Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.
» Novels are longer than life.
» We know all their gods; they ignore ours. What they call our sins are our gods, and what they call their gods, we name otherwise.
» If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.
» Would that well-thinking people should be replaced by thinking ones.
» How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue
» The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.