All the maxims have been written. It only remains to put them into practice.

How hollow is the heart of man, and how full of excrement!

Man's sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.

By space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; by thought I comprehend the world.

All mankind's troubles are caused by one single thing, which is their inability to sit quietly.

Which is the more believable of the two, Moses or China?

All sorrow has its root in man's inability to sit quiet in a room by himself.