History - an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant
Self knowledge is always bad news.
If you would learn a thing, straightway declare yourself a professor of it!
Nobody knew how to be what they were right.
Nothing is intrinsically valuable; the value of everything is attributed to it, assigned to it from outside the thing itself, by people.
Nothing is loathsomer than the self-loathing of a self one loathes.