Fear before an accident only intensifies the possibility that it will occur.
I know of no living being, except perhaps insects, who are distinguished by their immense need to learn from their mistakes, like men.
Our emotions are inversely proportional to our knowledge; the less we know, the more we ignite.
Do not try to avoid temptations: in time, they themselves will begin to avoid you.
It is not desirable to believe in a hypothesis when you have no firm reason to consider it correct.
Few can be happy till the end of their life without feeling hatred towards another man, nation, religion.....
Hating your enemies is easier and more exciting than loving your friends.
It is the unseemly act that terrifies an uneducated old judge.
There is nothing more tiring and useful than indecision.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
The poor do not envy the millionaires, but the poor who receive more of the alms.
The dwelling of the soul can only be built on the enduring foundation of endless despair.
He is not a gentleman: he dresses very well.
Organic life, as is known, evolves from the single-celled organism to the philosopher, and its evolution, we are assured, is undoubtedly progressive. It is bad that this assurance is given to us by the philosopher and not by the single-celled organism.
To get rid of fear is impossible only for the one who knows his place; only he who knows his nothingness can achieve greatness.
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for the most trivial reasons. Patriots always say that they are ready to die for the country and never that they are ready to kill for the country.
Bad philosophers may have some influence in society, but good influence - never.
Visiting China, I rate laziness as one of the most important human qualities.
The truth is that thing that each of us is obliged to tell the policeman.
"To live right" is to pretend, "to think right" is nonsense.
Only in a democracy do fools have the right to vote, and in a dictatorship to rule.
Religious tolerance only came about because we stopped giving religion as much importance as we used to.
The human species is an error. Without it, the universe would have been sublime.
Boredom is a serious problem for the moralist, because at least half of mankind's sins are committed out of boredom.
A happy life must be largely peaceful because true happiness can only exist in an atmosphere of peace.
The meaning of philosophy consists in starting with something obvious and finishing with what is paradoxical.
The compatibility of cruelty with a clean conscience is for moralists a peak of the fantastic. That's why they invented hell.
Fear is the main source of prejudice and one of the main sources of cruelty.
Those who are not happy and those who sleep badly have become accustomed to pride themselves on this.
The time he doesn't spend in front of the mirror he uses to face his bonds.