The trodden worm curls up. This testifies to its caution. It thus reduces its chances of being trodden upon again. In the language of morality: Humility.

When we think of all the things we want to do with our other half the answer should be simple; we should want to do absolutely everything with them. We should want to experience everything, feel everything, see everything with no one but them by our sides. When we look back on our lives it's not the things we did do with them that we'll regret, it's the things we didn't do.

In some remote corner of the universe, poured out and glittering among innumerable solar systems, there once was a star on which clever animals invented knowledge.

No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.

Not joy is the mother of dissipation, but joylessness.

Even the bravest only rarely have courage for what they really know.

How difficult it is to live when one feels that the judgment of many millenniums is around one and against one.