I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life just as well as with a life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of man's estate.

In my opinion it is the happy living, and not, as Antisthenes said, the happy lying, in which human happiness consists.

Our own peculiar human condition is that we are as fit to be laughed at as able to laugh.

Every man has within himself the entire human condition

To say less of yourself than is true is stupidity, not modesty. To pay yourself less than you are worth is cowardice and pusillanimity.

Man is quite insane. He wouldn?t know how to create a maggot, and he creates Gods by the dozen.

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.