There's no greater sign of being a poor philosopher and wise man than wanting all of life to be wise and philosophical.

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

He who has the courage to laugh is almost as much a master of the world as he who is ready to die.

Children find everything in nothing; men find nothing in everything.

Every man remembers his childhood as a kind of mythical age, just as every nation's childhood is its mythical age.

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

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.