Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I feel contempt.
The biologist passes. The frog stays the same.
Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood - we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we.
Being right is less important to us than the freedom to be wrong.
On the brink of being satiated, desire still appears infinite.
When I was young I pitied the old. Now old, it is the young I pity.