Aphorisms

Hell is paved with good intentions.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; genius hits a target no one else can see.

Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

Work keeps at bay three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.

It is easier to be wise for others than for oneself.

We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.

There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.