All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.
The majority of men... are not capable of thinking, but only of believing, and... are not accessible to reason, but only to authority.
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
A pessimist is an optimist in full possession of the facts.
A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.
Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.
Education perverts the mind since we are directly opposing the natural development of our mind by obtaining ideas first and observations last. This is why so few men of learning have such sound common sense as is quite common among the illiterate.
Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.
You are free to do what you want, but you are not free to want what you want.
Man is never happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something which he thinks will make him so.
We seldom think of what we have but always of what we lack. Therefore, rather than grateful, we are bitter.
A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.
The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.
The present is the only reality and the only certainty.
The tallest oak tree once was an acorn that any pig could have swallowed.
What people commonly call fate is mostly their own stupidity.
The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.
Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.
We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.
Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.
No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.
The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.
We will gradually become indifferent to what goes on in the minds of other people when we acquire a knowledge of the superficial nature of their thoughts, the narrowness of their views and of the number of their errors. Whoever attaches a lot of value to the opinions of others pays them too much honor.
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