A sub-clerk in the post office is the equal of a conqueror if consciousness is common to them. All experiences are indifferent in this regard. There are some that do either a service or a disservice to man. They do him a service if he is conscious. Otherwise, that has no importance: a man's failures imply judgment, not of circumstances, but of himself.

...the play of the toughest and most lucid mind are at the same time both lavished andsquandered.

It is better to burn than to disappear.

Liberty is dangerous, as hard to get along with as it is exciting.

The laws of nature may be operative up to a certain limit, beyond which they turn against themselves to give birth to the absurd.

It's better to bet on this life than on the next.

You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself.