Anger exceeding limits causes fear and excessive kindness eliminates respect.

Sufficiency's enough for men of sense.

Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.

Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.

Again, where the people are absolute rulers of the land, they rejoice in having the openness and exuberance of youth, while a tyrant counts this a danger, and seeks to slay or silence those possessed of spirit, while the discreet fear his power and violence.

Not for the first time I find our lives are a shadow, and I am not afraid to say that people who think they have everything figured out and are masters of logic - they are responsible for the greatest folly. No human being is happy. Strike it rich and you are luckier than your neighbor - but happy, never.