Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

The wisest mind has something yet to learn.

For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep.

why shouldnt things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? they are so, and we are so, and they and we go together.

It would hardly be possible to exaggerate man's wretchedness if it were not so easy to overestimate his sensibility

The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.

The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be.