Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.

Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum.