Who said “Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.”?

“One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.”

“We all try to escape pain and death, while we seek what is pleasant.”

“Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment.”

“Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.”

“The average man does not get pleasure out of an idea because he thinks it is true; he thinks it is true because he gets pleasure out of it.”

“Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.”

“The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.”

“It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.”

“Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic -- if it is pulled out I shall die.”

“God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners.”

“Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.”