The greatest wisdom often consist in ignorance.

A person of your century: Great persons are of their time. Not all were born into a period worthy of them, and many so born failed to benefit by it. Some merited a better century, for all that is good does not always triumph. Fashions have their periods and even the greatest virtues, their styles. But the philosopher, being ageless, has one advantage: Should this not prove the right century, many to follow will.

Exaggeration is a prodigality of the judgment which shows the narrowness of one's knowledge or one's taste.

Don't express your ideas too clearly. Most people think little of what they understand, and venerate what they do not.

He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave.

Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.

Don't show off every day, or you'll stop surprising people. There must always be some novelty left over. The person who displays a little more of it each day keeps up expectations, and no one ever discovers the limits of his talent.