“All comes out even at the end of the day, and all comes out still more even when all the days are over.”

“Morality is everywhere the same for all men, therefore it comes from God; sects differ, therefore they are the work of men.”

“One always begins with the simple, then comes the complex, and by superior enlightenment one often reverts in the end to the simple. Such is the course of human intelligence.”

“After all, it is no more surprising to me to be born twice than it is to be born once.”

“All our ancient history, as one of our wits remarked, is no more than accepted fiction.”

“There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.”

“And ask each passenger to tell his story, and if there is one of them all who has not cursed his existence many times, and said to himself over and over again that he was the most miserable of men, I give you permission to throw me head-first into the sea.”