Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.

Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.

Children's games are hardly games. Children are never more serious than when they play.

Lucius Arruntius killed himself, he said, to escape both the future and the past.

It takes so much to be a king that he exists only as such. That extraneous glare that surrounds him hides him and conceals him from us; our sight breaks and is dissipated by it being filled and arrested by this strong light.

A wise man loses nothing, if he but save himself.

It is not necessity but abundance which produces greed.