Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
Another occupation might have been better.
An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
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.
The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.