We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
It is a curious fact that in bad days we can very vividly recall the good time that is now no more; but that in good days, we have only a very cold and imperfect memory of the bad.
Women remain children all their lives, for they always see only what is near at hand, cling to the present, take the appearance of a thing for reality, and prefer trifling matters to the most important.
There is something in us that is wiser than our head.
He who does not enjoy solitude will not love freedom.
Religions are like fireflies. They require darkness in order to shine.
Life is full of troubles and vexations, that one must either rise above it by means of corrected thoughts, or leave it.
Scoundrels are always sociable.
The life of every individual is really always a tragedy, but gone through in detail, it has the character of a comedy.
A man must have grown old and lived long in order to see how short life is.
Life is a constant process of dying.
It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.
Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark.
A sense of humour is the only divine quality of man
Console yourself by remembering that the world doesn't deserve your affection.
The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.
Optimism is not only a false but also a pernicious doctrine, for it presents life as a desirable state and man's happiness as its aim and object. Starting from this, everyone then believes he has the most legitimate claim to happiness and enjoyment. If, as usually happens, these do not fall to his lot, he believes that he suffers an injustice, in fact that he misses the whole point of his existence.
Pantheism is only a polite form of atheism.
The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.
That human life must be some kind of mistake is sufficiently proved by the simple observation that man is a compound of needs which are hard to satisfy; that their satisfaction achieves nothing but a painless condition in which he is only given over to boredom . . .
Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.
The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
With health, everything is a source of pleasure; without it, nothing else, whatever it may be, is enjoyable...Healt h is by far the most important element in human happiness.
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.
Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.
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