Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.
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.
An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.
The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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.