To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
The idea of the future, pregnant with an infinity of possibilities, is thus more fruitful than the future itself, and this is why we find more charm in hope than in possession, in dreams than in reality.
Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.
The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.
The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that’s laughable is vanity.
Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.