Each of us really understands in others only those feelings he is capable of producing himself.

Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.

The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers the most from its own limitations.

Every perfect action is accompanied by pleasure. By that you can tell what you ought to do.

Woe to these people who have no appetite for the very dish that their age serves up.

What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.

Understand that the only possession of any value is life.