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He who is ashamed would like to force the world not to look at him, not to notice his exposure. He would like to destroy the eyes of the world.

But after this natural burst of indignation, no man of sense, courage, or prudence will waste his time or his strength in retrospective reproaches or repinings.

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

Old age is the supreme evil, for it deprives man of all pleasures while allowing his appetites to remain, and it brings with it every possible sorrow. Yet men fear death and desire old age.

Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.

The mechanical and social achievements of our day must not blind our eyes to the fact that, in all that relates to man, his nature and aspirations, we have added little or nothing to what has been so finely said by the great men of old.

That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.

Call for the grandest of all earthly spectacles, what is that? It is the sun going to his rest.