The value of a thing sometimes lies not in what one attains with it, but in what one pays for it - what it costs us

That roguish and cheerful vice, politeness.

To live alone one must be a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must be both - a philosopher.

It may be that until now there has been no more potent means for beautifying man himself than piety: it can turn man into so much art, surface, play of colors, graciousness that his sight no longer makes one suffer.---

To discover he is loved in return ought really to disenchant the lover with the beloved.

So live your life of obedience and of war! What matter about long life! What warrior wisheth to be spared!

You want to make him interested in you? Then pretend to be embarrassed in his presence-