"To be alone is the fate of all great minds – a fate deplored at times, but still always chosen as the less grievous of two evils."

"Man is at bottom a savage, horrible beast. We know it, if we look at the origin of society."

"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 more you leave a man to his own will, the more he will feel his own weakness."

"The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness."