Man Is Almost Always As Wicked As

Irresolute Men Are Sometimes Very Persistent In Their Undertakings, Because If They Give Up Their Designs They Would Have To Make A Second Resolution.

Real Misanthropes Are Not Found In Solitude, But In The World; Since It Is Experience Of Life, And Not Philosophy, Which Produces Real Hatred Of Mankind.

Of Men Eternally Dear! Happy Indeed If You Have Breathing-space From Pain: Blessed All The More If Death Should Heal You Of The Pain You Fear!

Nature, With Her Customary Beneficence, Has Ordained That Man Shall Not Learn How To Live Until The Reasons For Living Are Stolen From Him, That He Shall Find No Enjoyment Until He Has Become Incapable Of Vivid Pleasure.

It's Not Our Disadvantages Or Shortcomings That Are Ridiculous, But Rather The Studious Way We Try To Hide Them, And Our Desire To Act As If They Did Not Exist.