They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.

Injury, when it is slight, upsets me; when it is strong it calms me.

What words say does not last. The words last. Because words are always the same, and what they say is never the same.

God has given a great deal to man, but man would like something from man.

Without this ridiculous vanity that takes the form of self-display, and is part of everything and everyone, we would see nothing, and nothing would exist.

The flower that you hold in your hands was born today and already it is as old as you are.

If those who owe us nothing gave us nothing, how poor we would be.