Kindness is gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us..

What governs men is the fear of truth..

To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish sou….

Our life is nothing, it is true, but our life is divine. A breath of nature annihilates us, but we surpass nature in penetrating far beyond her vast ….

Composition is a process of combination, in which thought puts together complementary truths, and talent fuses into harmony the most contrary qualiti….

Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius..

Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers..

True poetry is truer than science, because it is synthetic, and seizes at once what the combination of all the sciences is able, at most, to attain a….

The philosopher is like a man fasting in the midst of universal intoxication. He alone perceives the illusion of which all creatures are the willing ….

Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart..

Great men are the real men, in them nature has succeeded..

It gives liberty and breadth to thought, to learn to judge our own epoch from the point of view of universal history, history from the point of view ….

Civilization is first of all a moral thing. Without truth, respect for duty, love of neighbor, and virtue, everything is destroyed. The morality of a….

The philosopher aspires to explain away all mysteries, to dissolve them into light. Mystery, on the other hand, is demanded and pursued by the religi….

The obscure only exists that it may cease to exist. In it lies the opportunity of all victory and all progress. Whether it call itself fatality, deat….

In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties..

[I]t is truth alone-scientific, established, proved, and rational truth-which is capable of satisfying nowadays the awakened minds of all classes. We….

To be misunderstood even by those whom one loves is the cross and bitterness of life. It is the secret of that sad and melancholy smile on the lips o….

Life is but a daily oscillation between revolt and submission..

There is only one way of not hating those who do us wrong, and that is by doing them good..

True humility is contentment..