An opinion, though it is original, does not necessarily differ from the accepted opinion; the important thing is that it does not try to conform to i….

I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting ev….

It is not becoming to lay to virtue the weariness of old age..

Do not do what someone else could do as well as you. Do not say, do not write what someone else could say, could write as well as you. Care for nothi….

Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life..

Do not think your truth can be found by anyone else..

Please do not understand me too quickly..

The nationalist has a broad hatred and a narrow love..

Pay attention only to the form; emotion will come spontaneously to inhabit it. A perfect dwelling always finds an inhabitant. The artist's business i….

What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it; what another would have writte….

True eloquence forgoes eloquence..

By the time a philospher answers a question weve usually forgotten what was asked..

The important thing is being capable of emotions, but to experience only one's own would be a sorry limitation..

It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things….

I do not love men: I love what devours them..

Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness..

Drunkenness is never anything but a substitute for happiness..

There is no feeling so simple that it is not immediately complicated and distorted by introspection..

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling..

Man! The most complex of creatures, and for this reason the most dependant of creatures. On everything that has formed you, you may depend. Do not ba….

Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves..