The Highest Happiness, The Purest Joys Of

How Can We Learn Self-knowledge? Never By Taking Thought But Rather By Action. Try To Do Your Duty And You'll Soon Discover What You're Like.

One Can Stand Anything Except A Succession Of Ordinary Days

It Is Easier To Perceive Error Than To Find Truth, For The Former Lies On The Surface And Is Easily Seen, While The Latter Lies In The Depth, Where Few Are Willing To Search For It.

I Could Never Have Known So Well How Paltry Men Are, And How Little They Care For Really High Aims, If I Had Not Tested Them By My Scientific Researches. Thus I Saw That Most Men Only Care For Science So Far As They Get A Living By It, And That They Worship Even Error When It Affords Them A Subsistence.

Alas, I Have Studied Philosophy, The Law As Well As Medicine, And To My Sorrow, Theology; Studied Them Well With Ardent Zeal, Yet Here I Am, A Wretched Fool, No Wiser Than I Was Before.