I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.
Meanings receive their dignity from words instead of giving it to them.
Each man is everything to himself, for with his death everything is dead for him. That is why each of us thinks he is everything to everyone. We must not judge nature by ourselves, but by its own standards.
The best defense against logic is ignorance.
Vanity is illustrated in the cause and effect of love, as in the case of Cleopatra.
That which makes us go so far for love is that we never think that we might have need of anything besides that which we love.