The most dangerous physicians are those born actors who imitate born physicians with a perfectly deceptive guile.

This is the fundamental idea of culture, insofar as it sets but one task for each of us: to further the production of the philosopher, of the artist, and of the saint within us and outside us, and thereby to work at the consummation of nature.

Living in a constant chase after gain compels people to expend their spirit to the point of exhaustion.

With one more talent one frequently stands with greater instability than with one less, as a table stands better on three legs than on four.

When we think of all the things we want to do with our other half the answer should be simple; we should want to do absolutely everything with them. We should want to experience everything, feel everything, see everything with no one but them by our sides. When we look back on our lives it's not the things we did do with them that we'll regret, it's the things we didn't do.

Whom do you call bad?--Those who always want to induce shame.

The first opinion that occurs to us when we are suddenly asked about something is usually not our own but only the current one pertaining to our class, position, or parentage; our own opinions seldom swim on the surface.