There is nothing to which men, while they have food and drink, cannot reconcile themselves.
We crave support in vanity, as we do in religion, and never forgive contradictions in that sphere.
Fear first created the gods.
Perhaps the universe is nothing but an equilibrium of idiocies.
Music is essentially useless, as is life.
The human mind is not rich enough to drive many horses abreast and wants one general scheme, under which it strives to bring everything.