Though we may be learned by another's knowledge, we can never be wise but by our own experience.
My home...It is my retreat and resting place from wars, I try to keep this corner as a haven against the tempest outside, as I do another corner in my soul.
It takes strong ears indeed to hear ourselves judged frankly, and because there are few who can endure criticism without being stung by it, those who venture to criticize us perform a remarkable act of friendship. For it is a healthy love that will risk wounding or offending in order to profer a benefit.
A man must not always tell all, for that be folly; but what a man says should be what he thinks.
Is it not better to remain in suspense than to entangle yourself in the many errors that the human fancy has produced? Is it not better to suspend your convictions than to get mixed up in these seditious and quarrelsome divisions?
No-one is exempt from speaking nonsense – the only misfortune is to do it solemnly.
Kings and philosophers defecate, and so do ladies.
I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
When we have got it, we want something else.
Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
When I quote others I do so in order to express my own ideas more clearly.
I would rather be old for a shorter time than be old before my time.
Truly it is reasonable to make a great distinction between the faults that come from our weakness and those that come from our wickedness.
No one but yourself knows whether you are cowardly and cruel, or loyal and devout; others do not see you; they surmise you by uncertain conjectures; they perceive not so much your nature as your art.
Every movement reveals us.
Obstinacy and dogmatism are the surest signs of stupidity. Is there anything more confident, resolute, disdainful, grave and serious than an ass?
And if nobody reads me, shall I have wasted my time, when I have beguiled so many idle hours with such pleasant and profitable reflections?
Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.
The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
Wise men have more to learn of fools than fools of wise men.
Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.
He who does not live in some degree for others, hardly lives for himself.
Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the rules, then you must forget the rules and play from your heart. If I were pressed to say why I loved him, I feel that my only reply could be: Because it was he, because it was I.
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