The sole cause of man’s unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room. - Blaise Pascal

Imagine a number of men in chains, all under sentence of death, some of whom are each day butchered in the sight of others those remaining see their own condition in that of their fellows, and looking at each other with grief and despair await their turn. This is an image of the human condition.

Both he who chooses heads and he who chooses tails are equally at fault. They are both in the wrong. True course is not to wager at all.

Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism.