There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.

The Self has turned out to mean so many things, to mean them so ambiguously, and to be so wavering in its application, that we do not feel encouraged.

It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand him until you have learnt how he understands himself.

Reason teaches us that what is good is good for something, and that what is good for nothing is not good at all.

True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.

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.

Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.