universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
Everybody's friend is nobody's.
Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!
Vulgar people take huge delight in the faults and follies of great men.
A man may call to mind the face of his friend, but not his own. Here, then, is an initial difficulty in the way of applying the maxim, Know Thyself.
One can never read too little of bad, or too much of good books: bad books are intellectual poison; they destroy the mind. In order to read what is good one must make it a condition never to read what is bad; for life is short, and both time and strength limited.