It is easy to be a philosopher in academia, but it is very difficult to be a philosopher in life.

If you ever have need of my life, come and take it.

The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.

Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.

Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.

For the salvation of his soul the Muslim digs a well. It would be a fine thing if each of us were to leave behind a school, or a well, or something of the sort, so that life would not pass by and retreat into eternity without a trace.

Capital punishment kills immediately, whereas lifetime imprisonment does so slowly. Which executioner is more humane? The one who kills you in a few minutes, or the one who wrests your life from you in the course of many years?