The most depressing aspect of the lives of the couples you watch surreptitiously arguing in restaurants is that they are almost always unaware of the true subject of argument. –

Karl Marx, a visionary, figured out that you can control a slave much better by convincing him he is an employee.

Usually, what we call a “good listener” is someone with skillfully polished indifference. –

If your anger decreases with time, you did injustice; if it increases, you suffered injustice.

You don’t become completely free by just avoiding to be a slave; you also need to avoid becoming a master.*

You have a calibrated life when most of what you fear has the titillating prospect of adventure.

You exist if and only if you are free to do things without a visible objective, with no justification and, above all, outside the dictatorship of someone else’s narrative.

Don’t talk about “progress” in terms of longevity, safety, or comfort before comparing zoo animals to those in the wilderness.

You are alive in inverse proportion to the density of clichés in your writing.