If pain could have cured us we should long ago have been saved.
There is no dunce like a mature dunce.
The Bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who don't understand it.
At best, the true philosopher can fulfil his mission very imperfectly, which is to pilot himself, or at most a few voluntary companions who may find themselves in the same boat.
I like to walk about amidst the beautiful things that adorn the world.
Nothing you can lose by dying is half as precious as the readiness to die, which is man's charter of nobility.