A man is a kind of inverted thermometer the bulb uppermost and the column of self-valuation is all the time going up and down.
The voice is a second signature.
The question is this: Is man an ape or an angel? I my lords am on the side of the angels.
I am a man nothing human is alien to me.
This is the best reason to learn history: not in order to predict the future, but to free yourself of the past and imagine alternative destinies. Of course this is not total freedom - we cannot avoid...
The strongest human instinct is to impart information the second strongest is to resist it.
Man is a wanting animal - as soon as one of his needs is satisfied another appears in its place. This process is unending. It continues from birth to death.
For seasons and seasons and seasons all our movement has been going against our self a journey into our killer's desire.
Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed the only animal that is never satisfied.
I am mortal born to love and to suffer.
The middle class prefers comfort to pleasure convenience to liberty and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.