"Thou wilt cease to live, not with a worse life, but with a life that is no life."

"The faculty of reason is the only one which can contemplate itself, and by itself distinguish truth from falsehood, and the real from the unreal."

"The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane."

"Soon you'll be ashes or a skeleton. A name at most, or not even a name. But name is sound and echo. The things we want in life are empty, foul, or trivial. Like dogs snapping at each other, or childre…"

"The present is the only thing of which a man can be deprived, if it is true that this is the only thing which he possesses, and that a man cannot lose a thing if he has it not."