"Everything is ephemeral, both that which remembers and that which is remembered."

"The soul of man does violence to itself, first of all, when it becomes an abscess and, as it were, a tumour on the universe, so far as it can."

"When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: The people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous and surly. They are like this because they cannot tell good from…"

"Do not act as if thou wert going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over thee. While thou hast life, while thou art able, be good."

"A man's worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions."