Every man has within himself the entire human condition
My home...It is my retreat and resting place from wars, I try to keep this corner as a haven against the tempest outside, as I do another corner in my soul.
Though we may be learned by another's knowledge, we can never be wise but by our own experience.
A man must become wise at his own expense.
I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
No-one is exempt from speaking nonsense – the only misfortune is to do it solemnly.
It takes strong ears indeed to hear ourselves judged frankly, and because there are few who can endure criticism without being stung by it, those who venture to criticize us perform a remarkable act of friendship. For it is a healthy love that will risk wounding or offending in order to profer a benefit.
Kings and philosophers defecate, and so do ladies.
When we have got it, we want something else.
No one but yourself knows whether you are cowardly and cruel, or loyal and devout; others do not see you; they surmise you by uncertain conjectures; they perceive not so much your nature as your art.
Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
I would rather be old for a shorter time than be old before my time.
Truly it is reasonable to make a great distinction between the faults that come from our weakness and those that come from our wickedness.
When I quote others I do so in order to express my own ideas more clearly.
A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
Obstinacy and dogmatism are the surest signs of stupidity. Is there anything more confident, resolute, disdainful, grave and serious than an ass?
Every movement reveals us.
All of the days go toward death and the last one arrives there.
The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
Wise men have more to learn of fools than fools of wise men.
Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.
Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the rules, then you must forget the rules and play from your heart. If I were pressed to say why I loved him, I feel that my only reply could be: Because it was he, because it was I.
He who does not live in some degree for others, hardly lives for himself.
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