Another occupation might have been better.
I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.
Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.
There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.
The hunter for aphorisms on human nature has to fish in muddy water, and he is even condemned to find much of his own mind.