The fly ought to be used as the symbol of impertinence and audacity; for whilst all other animals shun man more than anything else, and run away even….

If a person is stupid, we excuse him by saying that he cannot help it; but if we attempted to excuse in precisely the same way the person who is bad,….

Every human perfection is linked to an error which it threatens to turn into.

Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark..

Music is the answer to the mystery of life. The most profound of all the arts, It expresses the deepest thoughts of life..

Men of learning are those who have read the contents of books. Thinkers, geniuses, and those who have enlightened the world and furthered the race of….

It is only in the microscope that our life looks so big..

A man must have grown old and lived long in order to see how short life is..

And yet, just as our body would burst asunder if the pressure of the atmosphere were removed from it, so would the arrogance of men expand, if not to….

Most men are so thoroughly subjective that nothing really interests them but themselves..

We deceive and flatter no one by such delicate artificies as we do our own selves..

[T]he moralists of Europe [have] pretended that beasts have no rights... a doctrine revolting/gross/barbarous... on which a native of the Asiatic upl….

Religion is the metaphysics of the masses..

It is a wise thing to be polite; consequently, it is a stupid thing to be rude. To make enemies by unnecessary and willful incivility, is just as ins….

A word too much always defeats its purpose..

Life is full of troubles and vexations, that one must either rise above it by means of corrected thoughts, or leave it..

This actual world of what is knowable, in which we are and which is in us, remains both the material and the limit of our consideration..

A man may call to mind the face of his friend, but not his own. Here, then, is an initial difficulty in the way of applying the maxim, Know Thyself..

Console yourself by remembering that the world doesn't deserve your affection..

To call the world God is not to explain it; it is only to enrich our language with a superfluous synonym..

Many undoubtedly owe their good fortune to the circumstance that they possess a pleasing smile with which they win hearts. Yet these hearts would do ….