True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.
His mind is so open - so open that ideas simply pass through it.
It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.
I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
Reason teaches us that what is good is good for something, and that what is good for nothing is not good at all.