Any book, which is at all important, should be reread immediately
It is only when a man is alone that he is really free.
To expect a man to retain everything that he has ever read is like expecting him to carry about in his body everything that he has ever eaten.
It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them.
What makes people hard-hearted is this, that each man has, or fancies he has, as much as he can bear in his own troubles.
With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.
It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.
The cause of laughter is simply the sudden perception of the incongruity between a concept and the real project.
Every parting gives a foretaste of death; every remeeting a foretaste of the resurrection. That is why even people who are indifferent to each other rejoice so much if they meet again after twenty or thirty years of separation.
One can never read too little of bad, or too much of good books: bad books are intellectual poison; they destroy the mind. In order to read what is good one must make it a condition never to read what is bad; for life is short, and both time and strength limited.
Every new born being indeed comes fresh and blithe into the new existence, and enjoys it as a free gift: but there is, and can be, nothing freely given. It's fresh existence is paid for by the old age and death of a worn out existence which has perished, but which contained the indestructible seed out of which the new existence has arisen: they are one being.
One can forget everything, everything, only not oneself, one's own being.
Happiness of any given life is to be measured, not by its joys and pleasures, but by the extent to which it has been free from suffering-from positive evil.
Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.
All wanting comes from need, therefore from lack, therefore from suffering.
The ultimate foundation of honor is the conviction that moral character is unalterable: a single bad action implies that future actions of the same kind will, under similar circumstances, also be bad.
Before you take anything away, you must have something better to put in its place.
Reason is feminine in nature; it can only give after it has received.
The progress of life shows a man the stuff of which he is made.
It is not what things are objectively and in themselves, but what they are for us, in our way of looking at them, that makes us happy or the reverse.
Faith is like love, it cannot be forced. Therefore it is a dangerous operation if an attempt be made to introduce or bind it by state regulations; for, as the attempt to force love begets hatred, so also to compel religious belief produces rank unbelief.
I love looking at famous people. Because of the way they look. Because of the way photography makes them look famous.
Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is.
He who lives to see two or three generations is like a man who sits some time in the conjurer's booth at a fair, and witnesses the performance twice or thrice in succession. The tricks were meant to be seen only once; and when they are no longer a novelty and cease to deceive, their effect is gone.
What now on the other hand makes people sociable is their incapacity to endure solitude and thus themselves.
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