The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once.
The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.
An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
Another occupation might have been better.
Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.