"The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane."

"Consider the life of a man of forty, and the life of a man of ten thousand years; what difference is there? For both the past is gone, and the future is uncertain."

"Even for a god, if he wishes to do good, he must do it through the medium of human beings."

"Reject your sense of injury, and the injury itself disappears."

"Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now, take what's left and live it properly."