There are some centuries which - apart from everything else - in the art and other disciplines presume to remake everything because they know how to make nothing.

People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which they are not.

It's not our disadvantages or shortcomings that are ridiculous, but rather the studious way we try to hide them, and our desire to act as if they did not exist.

Death is not evil, for it frees man from all ills and takes away his desires along with desire's rewards.

The artist's conception of his art or the scientist's of his science is usually as great as his conception of his own worth is small.

Men do not so much hate an evil-doer, or evil itself, as they hate the man who calls evil by its real name.

The world laughs at things it would really prefer to admire, and like Aesop's fox it criticizes things it covets.