True eloquence makes light of eloquence, true morality makes light of morality; that is to say, the morality of the judgment, which has no rules, makes light of the morality of the intellect.... To make light of philosophy is to be a true philosopher.

Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired: even I who write this, and you who read this.

Kind words produce their own image in men's souls; and a beautiful image it is. They soothe and quiet and comfort the hearer. They shame him out of his sour, morose, unkind feelings. We have not yet begun to use kind words in such abundance as they ought to be used.

How shall one who is so weak in his childhood become really strong when he grows older? We only change our fancies.

Voluptuousness, like justice, is blind, but that is the only resemblance between them.

Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.

Something incomprehensible is not for that reason less real.