Virtue debases itself in justifying itself.
A witty quote proves nothing.
Men who have seen life and death... as an unbroken continuum, the swinging pendulum, have been able to move as freely into death as they walked through life. Socrates went to the grave almost perplexed by his companions' tears.
One always speaks badly when one has nothing to say.
Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.
It is only through timidity that states are lost.