What does long life avail? The best seats at the funerals of friends.
I always cause those who are near to me more suffering than pleasure.
Even paranoids have real enemies.
Major writing is to say that which has been seen, so that it need never be said again; so that which has been seen increases, changes in reality, in being.
Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.
All literature is an effort at the formal character of the epigram.