“Eternity -- waste of time.”
“Novels are longer than life.”
“Lovers should also have their days off.”
“Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.”
“Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.”
“To be one's own master is to be the slave of self.”
“Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.”
“Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.”
“If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.”
“Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.”
“Would that well-thinking people should be replaced by thinking ones.”
“The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.”
“How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue”
“Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?”
“We know all their gods; they ignore ours. What they call our sins are our gods, and what they call their gods, we name otherwise.”
“There are. intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and which are excluded for lack of interpreters.”