We come into the world alone and we die alone. Why, in life, should we be any less alone?
Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad.
Blushing is the color of virtue.
When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man.
Poverty is a virtue which one can teach oneself.
Democritus says, "But we know nothing really; for truth lies deep down".