Every step of life shows much caution is required.
The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.
Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public.
Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.
Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.
Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.
The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.
Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.
I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.
Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.
All things are only transitory.
We will burn that bridge when we come to it.
The deed is everything, the glory is naught.
First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.
The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.
I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.
Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.
There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.
Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.
Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture.