He who doubts, knows - knows as much as can be known.

He who travels much has this advantage over others – that the things he remembers soon become remote, so that in a short time they acquire the vague and poetical quality which is only given to other things by time. He who has not traveled at all has this disadvantage – that all his memories are of things present somewhere, since the places with which all his memories are concerned are present.

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

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

He who doubts, knows - knows as much as can be known.

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

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