“When his highness sends a ship to Egypt, does he trouble his head whether the mice on board are at their ease or not?”

“but whether he be, or whether he be not, I want bread.”

“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.”

“Divert yourself, 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.”

“It requires twenty years for a man to rise from the vegetable state in which he is within his mother's womb, and from the pure animal state which is the lot of his early childhood, to the state when the maturity of reason begins to appear. It has required thirty centuries to learn a little about his structure. It would need eternity to learn something about his soul. It takes an instant to kill him.”

“Never having been able to succeed in the world, he took his revenge by speaking ill of it.”

“It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.”