“Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.”

“Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.”Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.”

“Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.”

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.”

"To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave.”