HUMANITY,
INSIGNIFICANCE OF

Man is a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

Man is but a breath and shadow.

Euripides

The life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

Thomas Hobbes

The state of man is inconstancy, boredom, anxiety.

Blaise Pascal

When a man is wrapped up in himself he makes a pretty small package.

John Ruskin