Men are never convinced of your reasons, of your sincerity, of the seriousness of your sufferings, except by your death.
If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn’t. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.
Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world’s original sin. If the caveman had known how to laugh, History would have been different.