Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

Hatred comes from the heart; contempt from the head; and neither feeling is quite within our control.

Every parting gives a foretaste of death; every coming together again a foretaste of the resurrection.

A quick test of the assertion that enjoyment outweighs pain in this world, or that they are at any rate balanced, would be to compare the feelings of an animal…

'Believe only half of what you see, and nothing that you hear,' is a cynical saying, and yet less bitter than at first appears. It does not argue that human na…

Quelle verite que ces montagnes bornent, qui est mensonge qui se tient au dela?

Look down at me and you see a fool; look up at me and you see a god; look straight at me and you see yourself.