Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

Clowns drink to blot out the ravages of terrifying children for a living.

I was built up from my dad more than anyone else.

One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.

Erudition - dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.

I've never been afraid to fail.

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down provided it is the right temptation put in the right spot.

To imagine is everything to know is nothing at all.

They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.

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