"The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy."

"If we were not all so pitifully and ridiculously constituted, we should be ashamed to be alive."

"The animal enjoys the present, man is tormented by the future."

"Every parting gives a foretaste of death; every coming together again a foretaste of the resurrection."

"The more intelligence one has, the more pain one suffers."