- Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone elses opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
- One's real life is often the life that one does not lead.
- Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
- It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
- Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
- The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
- Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.
- Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience and rebellion that progress has been made.
- Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
apr 9 2009 ∞
mar 17 2010 +