All our wanting comes from needs, thus we continiously suffer. The intellect teaches free will, free from suffering.

...in the end every one stands alone, and the important thing is who it is that stands alone.

Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.

To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence.

The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.

Men best show their character in trifles, where they are not on their guard. It is in the simplest habits, that we often see the boundless egotism which pays no regard to the feelings of others and denies nothing to itself.

The less one, as a result of objective or subjective conditions, has to come into contact with people, the better off one is for it.