“There is no such thing as a perfectly happy or perfectly unhappy man in the world. One has more happiness in his life and another more unhappiness, and the same circumstance may produce widely diff...”

“It is always easy to break ones word to oneself.”

“The philosopher is a person who refuses no pleasures which do not produce greater sorrows, and who knows how to create new ones.”

“Hope is nothing but a deceitful flatterer accepted by reason only because it is often in need of palliatives.”

“lies, truth, loveI have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of it's charms.”

“If you have not done things worthy of being written about, at least write things worthy of being read.”