“Death is not an evil, because it frees us from all evils, and while it takes away good things, it takes away also the desire for them. Old age is the supreme evil, because it deprives us of all ple...”

“The surest way of concealing from others the boundaries of one's own knowledge is not to overstep them.”

“He who travels much has this advantage over others that the things he remembers soon become remote, so that in a short time they acquire the vague and poetical quality which is only given to other...”

“Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the world; since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces real hatred of mankind.”

“No one is so completely disenchanted with the world, or knows it so thoroughly, or is so utterly disgusted with it, that when it begins to smile upon him he does not become partially reconciled to it.”

“He who has the courage to laugh is almost as much the master of the world as he who is ready to die.”

“There's something very enticing about an empty bench under a tree. And if it's facing a river, that's the bench for me.”

“I want to lie down on the bench then, or better yet, on the grass, rest on something living and see if I can hear the dead underneath.”

“When we feel we have benched ourselves for too long, we must loosen up the unessential, get over our endless cringing and make a bold leap to the glowing stars of our dream. ("Steaming ahead" )”

“When I look out on such a night as this, I feel as if there could be neither wickedness nor sorrow in the world; and there certainly would be less of both if the sublimity of Nature were more atten...”

“There is eloquence in the tonguelesswind, and a melody in the flowing brooks and the rustling of thereeds beside them, which by their inconceivable relation to somethingwithin the soul, awaken the ...”

“Throughout our history human beings have conducted and practiced all kinds of rituals and activities with the motivation of obtaining peace. We have fought wars in the name of achieving peace becau...”