To have known how to change the past into a few saddened smiles-is this not to master the future?

In any event, a truth that disheartens, because it is true, is still of far more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.

Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature.

To have known how to change the past into a few saddened smiles-is this not to master the future?

Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass?.

(there is) no other means of escaping from one's consciousness than to deny it, to look upon it as an organic disease of the terrestrial intelligence - a disease which we must endeavor to cure by an action which must appear to us an action of violent and willful madness, but which, on the other side of our appearances, is probably an action of health. ("Of Immortality")

It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.