Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you yourself can obtain.

I am lost if I attempt to take count of chronology. When I think over the past, I am like a person whose eyes cannot properly measure distances and is liable to think things extremely remote which on examination prove to be quite near.

Never have I been able to settle in life. Always seated askew, as if on the arm of a chair; ready to get up, to leave.

By the time a philospher answers a question weve usually forgotten what was asked.

It is only through restraint that man can manage not to suppress himself.

What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.

It is with fine sentiments that bad literature is made. Descend to the bottom of the well if you wish to see the stars.