“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.”
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The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.
The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.
Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.
It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.
