I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.

Most men are in a coma when they are at rest and mad when they act.

I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not know.

Any man who does not think that what he has is more than ample, is an unhappy man, even if he is the master of the whole world.

When someone admits one and rejects another which is equally in accordance with the appearances, it is clear that he has quitted all physical explanation and descended into myth.

Death is meaningless to the living because they are living, and meaningless to the dead… because they are dead.

What men fear is not that death is annihilation but that it is not.