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.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.