A man who has not enough originality to think out a new title for his book will be much less capable of giving it new contents.

What a man is contributes much more to his happiness than what he has or how he is regarded by others.

The word of man is the most durable of all material.

All our wanting comes from needs, thus we continiously suffer. The intellect teaches free will, free from suffering.

To attain something desired is to discover how vain it is; and…though we live all our lives in expectation of better things, we often at the same time long regretfully for what is past. The present, on the other hand, is regarded as something quite temporary and serving only as the road to our goal. That is why most men discover when they look back on their life that they have the whole time been living ad interim, and are surprised to see that which they let go by so unregarded and unenjoyed was precisely their life, was precisely in expectation of which they lived.

Scoundrels are always sociable.

If a person is stupid, we excuse him by saying that he cannot help it; but if we attempted to excuse in precisely the same way the person who is bad, we should be laughed at.