Knowledge is a weight added to conscience.

The world of sleep has an existence of its own.

A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.

Why worry about what threatens our heads or purses? Let us think instead of what threatens our souls.

To be wicked does not insure prosperity - for the inn did not succeed well.

I'd like a drink. I desire to forget life. Life is a hideous invention by somebody I don't know. It doesn't last, and it's good for nothing. You break your neck simply living.

Wisdom is the health of the soul.