- Never ask to know so much. The less you know, the simpler you live. Knowledge makes you free, but unhappy.
- None but the lover lives; the rest merely exist.
- It is more dangerous and more harmful to hide love than to declare it.
- Only the unhappy know happiness. The happy man is a dummy of vitality. He displays it; he does not possess it.
- Without the senses there are no feelings. If you laugh when others laugh and weep when others weep, then you must be ready to die when they die, and to live when they live.
- Frailty, thy name is woman!
- Aim at perfection and you will not reach it even so.
- Time travels in divers paces with divers persons.
- A man is finished, turned into a living dead man, not when he ceases to love, but when he ceases to hate. Hatred preserves; in it, in its chemical composition, lies the “mystery” of life. Not by chance it remains the most powerful stimulant ever invented, and one well tolerated by every organism, even the feeblest.
- If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.
- He jests at scars that never felt a wound.
- People find it hard to speak with themselves, perhaps because it is hard to be a good storyteller and a patient listener at once.
- Love goes toward love, as schoolboys from their books; but love from love, toward school with heavy looks. It flees those who pursue it, and hangs upon the neck of those who run away.
- If I were what I wished, I should dream of being what I am.
- Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.
- Only the fool wins in life; the wise man sees too many obstacles and loses heart before he begins…
- Despair is the opiate; it brings the mind to indifference.
- Knowledge is anti-human; it has the property of alienating.
- It is terrible to be civilized, because when you reach the end of the world you have nothing with which to ease the horror of solitude.
- Light does not shine among light; it shines only in darkness. Here’s to the dark!
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