I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.
The multitude which is not brought to act as a unity, is confusion. That unity which has not its origin in the multitude is tyranny.
A mere trifle consoles us, for a mere trifle distresses us.
Making fun of philosophy is really philosophising.
Orthodoxy on one side of the Pyrenees may be heresy on the other.
All evil stems from this-that we do. Know how to handle your solitude.