Where violence reigns, reason is weak.
Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality.
A person of intellect without energy added to it, is a failure.
It is children only who enjoy the present; their elders either live on the memory of the past or the hope of the future.
One can be certain that every generally held idea, every received notion, will be idiocy because it has been able to appeal to the majority
Men's hearts and faces are always wide asunder; women's are not only in close connection, but are mirror-like in the instant power of reflection.