To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence.
We should be surprised that a matter that generally plays such an important part in the life of man has hitherto been almost entirely disregarded by philosophers, and lies before us as raw and untreated material.
Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
To forgive and forget means to throw away dearly bought experience.
All wanting comes from need, therefore from lack, therefore from suffering.
Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.