"The greatest wisdom is to make the present the object of one's consciousness, so that one is always in the present."

"It is only the man whose intellect is clouded by his sexual impulses that could give the name of fair sex to that undersized, narrow-shouldered, broad-hipped, and short-legged race: for the whole beau…"

"Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete, devotes his heart entirely to money."

"Women remain children all their lives, for they always see only what is near at hand, cling to the present, take the appearance of a thing for reality, and prefer trifling matters to the most importan…"

"Optimism is a truly wicked way of thinking."