Wretched, ephemeral race, children of chance and tribulation, why do you force me to tell you the very thing which it would be most profitable for you not to hear? The very best thing is utterly beyond your reach: not to have been born, not to be, to be nothing. However, the second best thing for you is: to die soon.
There is more both of beauty and of raison d'etre in the works of nature- than in those of art.
It will contribute towards one's object, who wishes to acquire a facility in the gaining of knowledge, to doubt judiciously.
Business or toil is merely utilitarian. It is necessary but does not enrich or ennoble a human life.
The energy or active exercise of the mind constitutes life.
There is nothing strange in the circle being the origin of any and every marvel.
Life is full of chances and changes, and the most prosperous of men may in the evening of his days meet with great misfortunes.
If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.
But the whole vital process of the earth takes place so gradually and in periods of time which are so immense compared with the length of our life, that these changes are not observed, and before their course can be recorded from beginning to end whole nations perish and are destroyed.
Remember that time slurs over everything, let all deeds fade, blurs all writings and kills all memories. Exempt are only those which dig into the hearts of men by love.
