If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist.

Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.

Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.