The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
The cost of a thing is what I call life which has to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once.
But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.