"Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it."

"It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows."

"He who laughs at himself never runs out of things to laugh at."

"Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?"

"Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man."

"Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had."

"The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time."

"It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right, especially when one is right."

"He who despises himself nevertheless esteems himself as a self-despiser."

"Never to talk about oneself is a very refined form of hypocrisy."

"I need solitude, which is to say, recovery, return to my self, the breath of a free, light, playful air."

"When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago."

"We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once."

"The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends."

"Success has always been a great liar."