It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours.
Calumny is only the noise of madmen.
The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted.
I threw my cup away when I saw a child drinking from his hands at the trough.
We come into the world alone and we die alone. Why, in life, should we be any less alone?
It was a favorite expression of Theophrastus that time was the most valuable thing that a man could spend.