What a strange vanity painting is; it attracts admiration by resembling the original, we do not admire.
I take it as a matter not to be disputed, that if all knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world. This seems proved by the quarrels and disputes caused by the disclosures which are occasionally made.
Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.
Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.
All sorrow has its root in man's inability to sit quiet in a room by himself.
To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.