Since we cannot match it let us take our revenge by abusing it.

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.

I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.

Fear sometimes adds wings to the heels, and sometimes nails them to the ground, and fetters them from moving.

There is no knowledge so hard to acquire as the knowledge of how to live this life well and naturally.

The perpetual work of your life is but to lay the foundation of death.

It is in vain that we get upon stilts, for once on them, it is still with our legs that we must walk. And on the highest throne in the world we are still sitting on our own ass.