We remember childhood as the fabulous years of our lives, and nations remember their childhood as fabulous years.

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

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

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.

Man is doomed either squander his youth, which is the only time he has to store provisions for the coming years and provide for his own well-being, or to spend his youth procuring pleasures in advance for that time of life when he will be too old to enjoy them.

Freedom is the dream you dream While putting thought in chains again --

In all climates, under all skies, man's happiness is always somewhere else.