“It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.”
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Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves we must die to one life before we can enter another.
The poor have to labour in the face of the majestic equality of the law, which forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.