1. “Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.”
2. “Our life is a loan received from death with sleep as the daily interest on this loan.”
3. “He who does not enjoy solitude will not love freedom.”
4. “Genius and madness have something in common: both live in a world that is different from that which exists for everyone else.”
5. “We seldom think of what we have but always of what we lack. Therefore, rather than grateful, we are bitter.”
6. “What people commonly call fate is mostly their own stupidity.”
7. “People of Wealth and the so called upper class suffer the most from boredom.”
8. “A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.”
9. “Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.”
10. “The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.”
11. “It is difficult to find happiness within one self, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.”
12. “The present is the only reality and the only certainty.”
13. “A happy life is impossible; the best that a man can attain is a heroic life.”
14. “life is a constant process of dying.”
15. “Life without pain has no meaning.”
16. “It is with the trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.”
17. “Everybody’s friend is nobody’s.”
18. “Intellect is visible to the man who has none.”
19. “Religion are like fireflies. they require darkness in order to shine.”
20. “The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.”
21. “Materialism is the philosophy of the subject who forgets to take account of himself.”
22. “Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.”
23. “After your death you will be what you were before your birth.”
24. “To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence.”
25. “The shortness of life, so often lamented , may be the best thing about it.”
26. “The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.”
27. “Restlessness is the hallmark of existence.”
28. “Vulgar people take huge delight in the faults sand follies of great men.”
29. “A pessimist is an optimist in full possession of the facts.”
30. “There is something in us that is wiser than our head.”
