Great minds tend toward banality. It is the noblest effort of individualism. But it implies a sort of modesty, which is so rare that it is scarcely found except in the greatest, or in beggars.

The individual never asserts himself more than when he forgets himself.

The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.

From the satisfaction of desire there may arise, accompanying joy and as it were sheltering behind it, something not unlike despair.

Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.

Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.

A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly