Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.
Almost all our sufferings spring from having to do with other people.
Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.
Every parting gives a foretaste of death; every coming together again a foretaste of the resurrection.
Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.
Need and boredom are the two poles of human life.
Every satisfaction he attains lays the seeds of some new desire, so that there is no end to the wishes of each individual will.
The fruits of Christianity were religious wars, butcheries, crusades, inquisitions, extermination of the natives of America and the introduction of African slaves in their place.
Herein they are like little dogs; if anything stirs, they immediately set up a shrill bark.
Religions are like fireflies: they need darkness in order to shine.
Clio, the muse of history, is as thoroughly infected with lies and falsehood as a common prostitute with syphilis.
Fame is something which must be won; honor only something which must not be lost.
Life is a business that does not cover the costs.
It is irrefutably certain that non-existence after death cannot be different from non-existence before birth.
In their search for gold, the alchemists discovered other things—gunpowder, china, medicines, the laws of nature.
Egoism is a colossal thing; it overtops the world.