The Soul is the voice of the body's interests.
The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.
If artists and poets are unhappy, it is after all because happiness does not interest them.
Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand.
The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk.
To condemn spontaneous and delightful occupations because they are useless for self-preservation shows an uncritical prizing of life irrespective of its content.