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Hope raises no dust.

Consciousness of myself, combined with complete ignorance of everything that does not fall within my sphere of thinking, is the most telling proof of my substantiality outside God, of my original existence.

We are each other’s magnitude and bond.

Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well.

The cynics are right nine times out of ten.

The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God’s children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.

On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.