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.
The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.
An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.
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.