Every day I hear stupid people say things that are not stupid.
The honor of the conquest is rated by the difficulty.
Children’s games are hardly games. Children are never more serious than when they play.
Happiness involves working toward meaningful goals.
Our wisdom and deliberation for the most part follow the lead of chance.
True it is that she who escapeth safe and unpolluted from out the school of freedom, giveth more confidence of herself than she who comet sound out of the school of severity and restraint.
Philosophical discussions habitually make men happy and joyful not frowning and sad.
If you want it to be so, history can be a waste of time; it can also be, if you want it to be so, a study bearing fruit beyond price.
Make use of life while you have it. Whether you have lived enough depends upon yourself, not on the number of your years.
What of a truth that is bounded by these mountains and is falsehood to the world that lives beyond?
No two men ever judged alike of the same thing, and it is impossible to find two opinions exactly similar, not only in different men but in the same men at different times.
We must reserve a back shop all our own entirely free, in which to establish our real liberty and our principal retreat and solitude.
Those sciences which govern the morals of mankind, such as Theology and Philosophy, make everything their concern: no activity is so private or so secret as to escape their attention or their jurisdiction.
When all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss; his accusations of himself are always believed; his praises never.
Oh, what a valiant faculty is hope.
We have power over nothing except our will.
Who does not in some sort live to others, does not live much to himself.
We are all of us richer than we think we are.
There are truths on this side of the Pyrenees which are falsehoods on the other.
Intoxication is calculated to put heart into the elderly and give them delight in dancing.