alent is like the marksman who hits a target which others cannot reach; genius is like the marksman who hits a target, as far as which others cannot ….

Ignorance is degrading only when found in company with great riches..

To become indignant at [people's] conduct is as foolish as to be angry with a stone because it rolls into your path. And with many people the wisest ….

Genius is to other gifts what the carbuncle is to the precious stones. It sends forth its own light, whereas other stones only reflect borrowed light..

Genius is an intellect that has become unfaithful to its destiny..

If there is anything in the world that can really be called a man's property, it is surely that which is the result of his mental activity..

The fruits of Christianity were religious wars, butcheries, crusades, inquisitions, extermination of the natives of America, and the introduction of ….

Two Chinamen visiting Europe went to the theatre for the first time. One of them occupied himself with trying to understand the theatrical machinery,….

If children were brought into the world by an act of pure reason alone, would the human race continue to exist? Would not a man rather have so much s….

It is only the man whose intellect is clouded by his sexual impulse that could give the name of the fair sex to that undersized, narrow-shouldered, b….

For what is modesty but hypocritical humility, by means of which, in a world swelling with vile envy, a man seeks to beg pardon for his excellences a….

One can forget everything, everything, only not oneself, one's own being..

If life — the craving for which is the very essence of our being — were possessed of any positive intrinsic value, there would be no such thing as bo….

As my own father was sick, and miserably tied to his invalid's chair, he would have been abandoned had not an old servant performed for him a so-call….

A hedge between keeps friendship green..

A man becomes a philosopher by reason of a certain perplexity, from which he seeks to free himself..

Women remain children all their lives, for they always see only what is near at hand, cling to the present, take the appearance of a thing for realit….

Do not shorten the morning by getting up late; look upon it as the quintessence of life, as to a certain extent sacred..

There are, first of all, two kinds of authors: those who write for the subject's sake, and those who write for writing's sake. ... The truth is that ….

To conceal a want of real ideas, many make for themselves an imposing apparatus of long compound words, intricate flourishes and phrases, new and unh….

To forgive and forget means to throw away dearly bought experience..