To become reconciled to a friend with whom you have broken, is a form of weakness; and you pay the penalty of it when he takes the first opportunity of doing precisely the very thing which brought abo...
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
No one writes anything worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject.
We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.
Money is human happiness in the abstract.
It will generally be found that, as soon as the terrors of life reach the point at which they outweigh the terrors of death, a man will put an end to his life. But the terrors of death offer considera...
A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.
Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.
Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
Faith is like love: it does not let itself be forced.
Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people. There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness.
Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.
Genius lives only one storey above madness
The will is the strong blind man who carries on his shoulders the lame man who can see.
The fly ought to be used as the symbol of impertinence and audacity for whilst all other animals shun man more than anything else and run away even before he comes near them the fly lights upon his...
(Politeness is) a tacit agreement that people's miserable defects whether moral or intellectual shall on either side be ignored and not be made the subject of reproach.
A man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.
We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.
Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.
As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amo...