Pride is an established conviction of one’s own paramount worth in some particular respect, while vanity is the desire of rousing such a conviction in others, and it is generally accompanied by the secret hope of ultimately coming to the same conviction oneself. Pride works from within; it is the direct appreciation of oneself. Vanity is the desire to arrive at this appreciation indirectly, from without.

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

If you feel irritated by the absurd remarks of two people whose conversation you happen to overhear, you should imagine that you are listening to a dialogue of two fools in a comedy.

It is the courage to make a clean breast of it in the face of every question that makes the philosopher.

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

Time is that in which all things pass away.

Sexual passion is the cause of war and the end of peace, the basis of what is serious... and consequently the concentration of all desire