The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.
Men forget where the way leads and what they meet with every day seems strange to them.We should not act and speak like men asleep.
It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.
When men dream, each has his own world. When they are awake, they have a common world.
We circle in the night and we are devoured by fire.
The majority of people have no understanding of the things with which they daily meet, nor, when instructed, do they have any right knowledge of them, although to themselves they seem to have.