"Dogs, monkeys, and parrots are a thousand..." - Quote by Voltaire

“Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?”

“The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.”

“Hope should no more be a virtue than fear; we fear and we hope, according to what is promised or threatened us.”

“Human beings do not know their place and purpose. They have fallen from their true place, and lost their true purpose. They search everywhere for their place and purpose, with great anxiety. But they cannot find them because they are surrounded by darkness.”

“Most men are like me. They cannot live in a universe where the most bizarre thought can in one second enter into the realm of reality--where, most often, it does enter, like a knife in a heart.”

“We have our Arts so we won't die of Truth.”

“There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision, and for whom the lighting of every cigar, the drinking of every cup, the time of rising and going to bed every day, and the beginning of every bit of work, are subjects of express volitional deliberation.”

“If misery loves company, misery has company enough.”

“One kind of happiness is to know exactly at what point to be miserable.”