Reading is thinking with someone else's head instead of ones own.
Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.
Necessity is the constant scourge of the lower classes ennui of the higher ones.
Money is human happiness in the abstract.
If children were brought into the world by an act of pure reason alone, would the human race continue to exist? Would not a man rather have so much sympathy with the coming generation as to spare it t...
The greatest intellectual capacities are only found in connection with a vehement and passionate will.
It is in trifles and when he is off his guard that a man best shows his character.
Any book which is at all important should be re-read immediately.
If we suspect that a man is lying, we should pretend to believe him; for then he becomes bold and assured, lies more vigorously, and is unmasked.
It often happens that we blurt out things that may in some kind of way be harmful to us, but we are silent about things that may make us look ridiculous; because in this case effect follows very quick...
Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.
Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another but women are by nature enemies.
It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.
Why, then, does the man in love hang with complete abandon on the eyes of his chosen one, and is ready to make every sacrifice for her? Because it is his immortal part that longs for her; it is always...
That human life must be some kind of mistake is sufficiently proved by the simple observation that man is a compound of needs which are hard to satisfy; that their satisfaction achieves nothing but a...
In savage countries they eat one another, in civilized they deceive one another; and that is what people call the way of the world!
If the world were a paradise of luxury and ease, a land flowing with milk and honey, where every Jack obtained his Jill at once and without any difficulty, men would either die of boredom or hang them...
However, for the man who studies to gain , books and studies are merely rungs of the ladder on which he climbs to the summit of knowledge. As soon as a rung has raised him up one step, he leaves it be...
But it is common knowledge that religions don’t want conviction, on the basis of reasons, but faith, on the basis of revelation. And the capacity for faith is at its strongest in childhood: which is w...
Happiness belongs to those who are sufficient unto themselves. For all external sources of happiness and pleasure are by their very nature highly uncertain precarious ephemeral and subject to cha...