Pleasure is the carrot dangled to lead the ass to market; or the precipice.

Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us.

Still the mind smiles at its own rebellions.

...Science and mathematics Run parallel to reality, they symbolize it, they squint at it, They never touch it: consider what an explosion Would rock the bones of men into little white fragments and unsky the world If any mind for a moment touch truth.

He is strong and pain is worse to the strong, incapacity is worse.

A little too abstract, a little too wise, It is time for us to kiss the earth again, It is time to let the leaves rain from the skies, Let the rich life run to the roots again.

You making haste on decay: not blameworthy; life is good, be it stubbornly long or suddenly A mortal splendor: meteors are not needed less than mountains: shine, perishing republic.