"The greatest mistake a man can make is to fall in love with a woman."

"If children were brought into the world by an act of pure reason alone, would the human race continue to exist? Would not a man rather have so much sympathy with the coming generation as to spare it t…"

"The truth is that we are all born mad. Some remain so."

"The shortness of life, so often lamented, may be the best thing about it."

"The world is hell, and men are on the one hand the tormented souls and on the other the devils in it."