We must become just be doing just acts.

Why is it that all men who are outstanding in philosophy, poetry or the arts are melancholic?

Selfishness doesn't consist in a love to yourself, but in a big degree of such love.

While fiction is often impossible, it should not be implausible.

Men pay most attention to what is their own: they care less for what is common; or, at any rate, they care for it only to the extent to which each is individually concerned.

True happiness comes from gaining insight and growing into your best possible self. Otherwise all you're having is immediate gratification pleasure, which is fleeting and doesn't grow you as a person.

Comedy has had no history, because it was not at first treated seriously.