Every word is a preconceived judgment.
How difficult it is to live when one feels that the judgment of many millenniums is around one and against one.
Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.
In every age the wisest have passed the identical judgment on life: it is worthless...