Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law..

Human life must be some form of mistake..

If at times I have thought myself unfortunate, it is because of a confusion, an error. I have mistaken myself for someone else... Who am I really? I ….

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone..

The weakness of their reasoning faculty also explains why women show more sympathy for the unfortunate than men;... and why, on the contrary, they ar….

A man of business will often deceive you without the slightest scruple, but he will absolutely refuse to commit a theft..

In youth it is the outward aspect of things that most engages us; while in age, thought or reflection is the predominating qualityof the mind. Hence,….

I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage..

When you look back on your life, it looks as though it were a plot, but when you are into it, it's a mess: just one surprise after another. Then, lat….

A great affliction of all Philistines is that idealities afford them no entertainment, but to escape from boredom they are always in need of realitie….

Before you take anything away, you must have something better to put in its place..

The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite..

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection..

Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properl….

There is no opinion, however absurd, which men will not readily embrace as soon as they can be brought to the conviction that it is generally adopted..

If at any moment Time stays his hand, it is only when we are delivered over to the miseries of boredom..

What a person is for himself, what abides with him in his loneliness and isolation, and what no one can give or take away from him, this is obviously….

Consider the Koran... this wretched book was sufficient to start a world-religion, to satisfy the metaphysical need of countless millions for twelve ….

Monotheistic religions alone furnish the spectacle of religious wars, religious persecutions, heretical tribunals, that breaking of idols and destruc….

Life is a business that does not cover the costs..

If anyone spends almost the whole day in reading...he gradually loses the capacity for thinking...This is the case with many learned persons; they ha….