Ten truths must you find during the day; otherwise will you seek truth during the night, and your soul will have been hungry.

At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.

The great epochs of our life come when we gain the courage to rechristen our evil as what is best in us.

There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.

At the very moment when someone is beginning to take philosophy seriously, the whole world believes the opposite.

It is not enough to prove something, one also has to seduce or elevate people to it. That is why the man of knowledge should learns how to speak his wisdom: and often in such a way that it sounds like folly!

History teaches that a race of people is best preserved where the greater number hold one common spirit in consequence of the similarity of their accustomed and indisputable principles.