Never expect women to be sincere, so long as they are educated to think that their first aim in life is to please.
He who believes in freedom of the will has never loved and never hated.
Only the thinking man lives his life, the thoughtless man’s life passes him by.
Not what we experience, but how we perceive what we experience, determines our fate.
Nothing is so often and so irrevocably missed as the opportunity which crops up daily.
The poor man wishes to conceal his poverty, and the rich man his wealth: the former fears lest he be despised, the latter lest he be plundered.
There are very few honest friends – the demand is not particularly great.
If there be a faith that can move mountains, it is faith in one’s own power.
Fools usually know best that which the wise despair of ever comprehending.
Grace is the outcome of inward harmony.
The wise man is seldom prudent.
A book cannot easily be too bad for the general public, but may easily be too good.
Be the first to say something obvious and achieve immortality.
Hatred is a prolific vice; envy, a barren vice.
When art find no temple open, it takes refuge in the workshop.
All that is due to us will be paid, although not perhaps by those to whom we have lent.
If you have one good idea, people will lend you twenty.
Who doesn’t know anything, has to believe everything.
Happy slaves are the bitterest enemies of freedom.
Many think that when they have confessed a fault there is no need of correcting it.