They must take me for a fool, or even worse, a lunatic. And no wonder ,for I am so intensely conscious of my misfortune and my misery is so overwhelming that I am powerless to resist it and am being turned into stone, devoid of all knowledge or feeling.

From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.

Happy the man to whom heaven has given a morsel of bread without laying him under the obligation of thanking any other for it than heaven itself.

Thou art a cat, and a rat, and a coward.

Laws that only threaten, and are not kept, become like the log that was given to the frogs to be their king, which they feared at first, but soon scorned and trampled on.

Now blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep. It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak.

Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world