Caution is the eldest child of wisdom.
Philosophy should be an energy; it should find its aim and its effect in the amelioration of mankind.
Earnestness is the salt of eloquence.
Dry happiness is like dry bread. We eat, but we do not dine. I wish for the superfluous, for the useless, for the extravagant, for the too much, for that which is not good for anything.
Sacrificing the earth for paradise is giving up the substance for the shadow.
On this point, the priest and the philosopher agree: We must die.