Pity, but never love bestows kind words upon the slave.

If someone were to think that trees are made to support the sky, they would all seem too short.

I would love to be able to write a tragedy in my imagination--it would turn into a masterpiece.

You can make the best of it and be content, or you can complain, it makes no difference. What does it matter that human beings judge the things that exist?

Grief, first take on shape! what is shapeless causes fear and torment but when the enemy materializes, half the victory is won.

Christianity is the religion of melancholy and hypochondria. Islam, on the other hand, promotes apathy, and Judaism instills its adherents with a certain choleric vehemence, the heathen Greeks may well be called happy optimists.

Pity, but never love bestows kind words upon the slave.