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

If the best company is that which we leave feeling most satisfied with ourselves, it follows that it is the company we leave most bored.

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

The thought that really crushes us is the thought of the futility of life of which death is the visible manifestation.

The commonplace expression that life is nothing but a play is verified above all in this: the world speaks absolutely consistently in one way and acts absolutely consistently in another.

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

Nature, with her customary beneficence, has ordained that man shall not learn how to live until the reasons for living are stolen from him, that he shall find no enjoyment until he has become incapable of vivid pleasure.