Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
Pride and curiosity are the two scourges of our souls. The latter prompts us to poke our noses into everything, and the former forbids us to leave anything unresolved and undecided.
On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.
Every other knowledge is harmful to him who does not have knowledge of goodness.
The highest wisdom is continual cheerfulness such a state like the region above the moon is always clear and serene.
We should tend our freedom wisely.
Other people do not see you at all, but guess at you by uncertain conjectures.
No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately.
Can anything be imagined so ridiculous, that this miserable and wretched creature [man], who is not so much as master of himself, but subject to the injuries of all things, should call himself master...
It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
The word is half his that speaks and half his that hears it.
I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
Once conform once do what others do because they do it and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
There is no man so good who were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.
The great and glorious masterpiece of man is how to live with a purpose.
The soul that has no established aim loses itself.
There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened.
If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.
There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.