All we do is to look after the opinions and learning of others: we ought to make them our own.
It is commonly seen by experience that excellent memories do often accompany weak judgements.
He who does not live in some degree for others hardly lives for himself.
We can be knowledgeable with another man's knowledge, but we can't be wise with another man's wisdom.
Without doubt, it is a delightful harmony when doing and saying go together.
I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.
Women are not entirely wrong when they reject the moral rules proclaimed in society, since it is we men alone who have made them.
Such as are in immediate fear of a losing their estates, of banishment, or of slavery, live in perpetual anguish, and lose all appetite and repose; whereas such as are actually poor, slaves, or exiles...
Let every foot have its own shoe.
Every movement reveals us.
Diogenes was asked what wine he liked best and he answered "Somebody else's."
The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose.
We need very strong ears to hear ourselves judged frankly, and because there are few who can endure frank criticism without being stung by it, those who venture to criticize us perform a remarkable ac...
There is no passion so much transports thesincerity of judgement as doth anger
I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.
Our zeal works wonders, whenever it supports our inclination toward hatred, cruelty, ambition.
Off I go, rummaging about in books for sayings which please me.
I speak to the paper, as I speak to the first person I meet.
Obstinacy and heat in sticking to one's opinions is the surest proof of stupidity. Is there anything so cocksure so immovable so disdainful so contemplative so solemn and serious as an ass?
We need but little learning to live happily.