The man who thinks he knows does not yet know what knowing is
'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
Virtue shuns ease as a companion. It demands a rough and thorny path.
Every period of life has its peculiar prejudices; whoever saw old age, that did not applaud the past, and condemn the present times?
The first lessons with which we should irrigate his mind should be those which teach him to know himself, and to know how to die ... and to live.