Such a man as instinctively feeds on pure ambrosia and leaves alone the indigestible in things.

The man who meets with a failure attributes this failure rather to the ill will of another than to fate.

It is a terrible thought, to contemplate that an immense number of mediocre thinkers are occupied with really influential matters.

To be moral, correct, and virtuous is to be obedient to an old established law and custom.

Whoever possesses abundant joy must be a good man: but he is probably not the cleverest man, although he achieves exactly what it is that the cleverest man strives with all his cleverness to achieve.

Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.

What we do in dreams we also do when we are awake: we invent and fabricate the person with whom we associate - and immediately forget we have done so.