Everything since Homer has improved, except poetry..

In all climates, under all skies, man's happiness is always somewhere else..

The end of pain we take as happiness..

Man is almost always as wicked as his needs require..

No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life, and gets less, than intolerance..

Boredom is the most sublime of all human emotions because it expresses the fact that the human spirit, in a certain sense, is greater than the entire….

The thought that really crushes us is the thought of the futility of life of which death is the visible manifestation..

Nothing in the world is so rare as a person one can always put up with..

He who has the courage to laugh is almost as much a master of the world as he who is ready to die..

People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which they are not..

He who doubts, knows - knows as much as can be known..

That is why all great men are modest: they consistently measure themselves not in comparison to other people but to the idea of perfection ever prese….

Ignorance is the greatest source of happiness..

Men do not so much hate an evil-doer, or evil itself, as they hate the man who calls evil by its real name..

Children find everything in nothing; men find nothing in everything..

The most solid pleasure in this life is the empty pleasure of illusion..

Every man remembers his childhood as a kind of mythical age, just as every nation's childhood is its mythical age..

What do you do there, moon, in the sky? Tell me what you do, silent moon. When evening comes you rise and go contemplating wastelands; then you set..

It's interesting to observe that almost all truly worthy men have simple manners, and that simple manners are almost always taken as a sign of little….

Death is not an evil, because it frees us from all evils, and while it takes away good things, it takes away also the desire for them. Old age is the….

Rest forever, tired heart. The final illusion has perished. The one we believed eternal is gone. Just like that. Out the door desire follows hope. Re….