Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want.
The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.
The mirror is a worthless invention. The only way to truly see yourself is in the reflection of someone else's eyes.
It is impossible to translate poetry. Can you translate music?
I hold firmly to my original views. After all I am a philosopher.
One always begins with the simple, then comes the complex, and by superior enlightenment one often reverts in the end to the simple. Such is the course of human intelligence.