Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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.
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.