Continue ye merry notes! The evening is mild, the sea is calm and bright as any mirror.
My life is a lovely story, happy and full of incident.
“You are a dreamer, and that is your misfortune.”
“My life will be the best illustration of all my work.”
“She laughed and danced with the thought of death in her heart.”
“Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.”
Every man's life is a fairy-tale written by God's fingers.
Death walks faster than the wind and never returns what he has taken.
Mermaids have no tears, and so they suffer all the more.
Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.
Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
“When the bird of the heart begins to sing, too often will reason stop up her ears.”
“But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more.”
In everything, there is a share of everything.
All things were together, infinite both in number and in smallness; for the small too was infinite.
The purpose of life is the investigation of the Sun, the Moon, and the heavens.
The descent into Hades is much the same from whatever place we start.
The descent to Hades is the same from every place.
The Sun is a mass of fiery stone, a little larger than Greece.
Men would live exceedingly quiet if these two words, mine and thine, were taken away.
Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen.
Everything has a natural explanation. The moon is not a god, but a great rock, and the sun a hot rock.
It is not I who have lost the Athenians, but the Athenians who have lost me.
“Life should be lived so vividly and so intensely that thoughts of another life, or of a longer life, are not necessary.”