A precondition for reading good books is not reading bad ones: for life is short.

It is for this
reason that we find that co-existence, which could neither be in
time alone, for time has no contiguity, nor in space alone, for
space has no before, after, or now,

Ordinary people merely think how they shall 'spend' their time; a man of talent tries to 'use' it.

Time is that by which at every moment all things become as nothing in our hands, and thereby lose all their true value.

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.