When you have discovered a stain in yourself, you eagerly seek for and gladly find stains in others.
Being alone when one's belief is firm, is not to be alone.
Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.
What will people say-in these words lies the tyranny of the world, the whole destruction of our natural disposition, the oblique vision of our minds. These four words hold sway everywhere.
Imagination is the mightiest despot.
He who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy.