A man may call to mind the face of his friend, but not his own. Here, then, is an initial difficulty in the way of applying the maxim, Know Thyself.

I believe that when death closes our eyes we shall awaken to a light, of which our sunlight is but the shadow.

Still, instead of trusting what their own minds tell them, men have as a rule a weakness for trusting others who pretend to supernatural sources of knowledge.

Life is a constant process of dying.

A man may call to mind the face of his friend, but not his own. Here, then, is an initial difficulty in the way of applying the maxim, Know Thyself.

The truth can wait, for it lives a long life.

Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.