It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.

He who laughs at himself never runs out of things to laugh at.

Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.

Who are those people by whom you wish to be admired? Are they not these whom you are in the habit of saying that they are mad? What then? Do you wish to be admired by the mad?

In theory there is nothing to hinder our following what we are taught;but in life there are many things to draw us aside.

It doesn't take much to lose everything, just a little departure from reason

Man is troubled not by events, but by the meaning he gives them.