It needs courage to be afraid.
We are more unhappy to see people ahead of us than happy to see people behind us.
Oh these foolish men! They could not create so much as a worm, but they create gods by the dozens.
To behave rightly, we ourselves should never lay a hand on our servants as long as our anger lasts. Things will seem different to us when we have quieted and cooled down.
The reverse side of truth has a hundred thousand shapes and no defined limits.
I listen with attention to the judgment of all men; but so far as I can remember, I have followed none but my own.
It is only certain that there is nothing certain, and that nothing is more miserable or more proud than man.
No one should be subjected to force over things which belonged to him.
Judgement can do without knowledge: but not knowledge without judgement.
Off I go, rummaging about in books for sayings which please me.
All we do is to look after the opinions and learning of others: we ought to make them our own.
It is a disaster that wisdom forbids you to be satisfied with yourself and always sends you away dissatisfied and fearful, whereas stubbornness and foolhardiness fill their hosts with joy and assurance.
Certainly, if he still has himself, a man of understanding has lost nothing.
One must be a little foolish if one does not want to be even more stupid.
The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use; some men have lived long, and lived little; attend to it while you are in it. It lies in your will, not in the number of years, for you to have lived enough.
Experience has further taught me this, that we ruin ourselves by impatience.
There are no truths, only moments of claryty passing for answers.
There is more ado to interpret interpretations than to interpret things, and more books upon books than upon any other subject; we do nothing but comment upon one another. Every place swarms with commentaries; of authors there is great scarcity.
We need to interpret interpretations more than to interpret things.
When I express my opinions it is so as to reveal the measure of my sight not the measure of the thing.