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

Death is not an evil, because it frees us from all evils, and while it takes away good things, it takes away also the desire for them. Old age is the supreme evil, because it deprives us of all pleasures, leaving us only the appetite for them, and it brings with it all sufferings. Nevertheless, we fear death, and we desire old age.

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.

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

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.

What do you do there, moon, in the sky? Tell me what you do, silent moon. When evening comes you rise and go contemplating wastelands; then you set.

If content with himself and mankind, a man is never harsh or curt.