The end of pain we take as happiness.

Boredom is the most sublime of all human emotions because it expresses the fact that the human spirit, in a certain sense, is greater than the entire universe. Boredom is an expression of a profound despair at not finding anything that can satisfy the soul's boundless needs.

Men are ready to suffer anything from others or from heaven itself, provided that, when it comes to words, they are untouched.

The surest way of concealing from others the boundaries of one s own knowledge is not to overstep them.

Old age is the supreme evil, for it deprives man of all pleasures while allowing his appetites to remain, and it brings with it every possible sorrow. Yet men fear death and desire old age.

Nothing in the world is so rare as a person one can always put up with.

A dictionary can embrace only a small part of the vast tapestry of a language.