@NeitherExtreme,
The present is never our end. The past and the present are our means; the future alone is our end.
As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all
Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them.
Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.
One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.