One can forget everything, everything, only not oneself, one's own being.

You can do what you will, but in any given moment of your life you can will only one definite thing and absolutely nothing other than that one thing.

Time is that in which all things pass away.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Man may have the most excellent judgment in all other matters, and yet go wrong in those which concern himself; because here the will comes in and deranges the intellect at once. Therefore let a man take counsel of a friend. A doctor can cure everyone but himself; if he falls ill, he sends for a colleague.

The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.

A happy life is impos­si­ble; the best that a man can attain is a heroic life.