The dog who meets with a good master is the happier of the two.
Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence.
It is death that is the guide of our life, and our life has no goal but death.
To be good we must needs have suffered; but perhaps it is necessary to have caused suffering before we can become better.
All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.
Each man has to seek out his own special aptitude for a higher life in the midst of the humble and inevitable reality of daily existence. Than this, there can be no nobler aim in life.