To try to be better is to be better.
Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.
Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it.
I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.