In olden days people were worse than us but knew much more than us.

It’s quite certain there are places to which the whole past is as though attached, on which are traced in secret letters for people who are centuries removed from us their thoughts, their will…

Nothing so removes a man from his inner, mysterious, real life, nothing makes him so deaf and dumb as the picture of these petty passions and petty crimes which calls itself the world of politics.

The soulless have no need of melancholia

Pride is the chalice into which all human sins are poured: it glitters and jingles and its arabesque lures your gaze, while your lips involuntarily touch the seductive beverage.

Because sometimes people who seem goodend up being not as good as you might have hoped.

There is only one good definition of God: the freedom that allows other freedoms to exist.

The Repairer is a Restorer.

I have a lot of money.

The best performance improvement is the transition from the nonworking state to the working state.

What causes us to think of prayer as the last option rather than the first? I can think of two reasons: feelings of independence and feelings of insignificance.

The snakes are always against the prohibition of the poisons; and the arms traders, of the arms!

The fact is that ours is the only minority you can join involuntarily, without warning, at any time. And if you live long enough, as you're increasingly likely to do, you may well join it.

The world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness.