What does it matter whether I am shown to be right! I am right too much!--And he who laughs best today will also laugh last.

If you are considering marriage, ask yourself one question: Will I still enjoy talking with her when I'm old?

The disappointed one speaks. I searched for great human beings; I always found only the apes of their ideals.

He who cannot command himself should obey. And many can command themselves, but much is still lacking before they can obey themselves.

Never to talk about oneself is a very refined form of hypocrisy.

The Greeks, with their truly healthy culture, have once and for all justified philosophy simply by having engaged in it, and having engaged in it more fully than any other people.

However much we may feel for the misery of someone close to us, we always act with some artificiality in their presence. We hold-back from telling them everything we think, often because we do not genuinely mean what we say; or because we take a pleasure in their plight, thankful that we are not affected.