What now on the other hand makes people sociable is their incapacity to endure solitude and thus themselves.

A hedge between keeps friendship green.

How is it possible that suffering that is neither my own nor of my concern should immediately affect me as though it were my own, and with such force that is moves me to action?

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.

No one writes anything worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject.

It is only when a man is alone that he is really free.

Pride works from within; it is the direct appreciation of oneself.