One must have deeper motives and judge everything accordingly, but go on talking like an ordinary person.

The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.

One has followed the other in an endless circle, for it is certain that as man's insight increases so he finds both wretchedness and greatness within himself. In a word man knows he is wretched. Thus he is wretched because he is so, but he is truly great because he knows it.

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have all one wants.

Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.

There are people who lie simply for the sake of lying.

To call a king "Prince" is pleasing, because it diminishes his rank.