The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
Another occupation might have been better.
There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.
One said of suicide, As long as one has brains one should not blow them out. And another answered, But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.