The higher culture an individual attains, the less field there is left for mockery and scorn.

A person unlearns arrogance when he knows he is always among worthy human beings; being alone fosters presumption. Young people are arrogant because they always associate with their own peers, those who are all really nothing but who would like to be very important.

The living is merely a type of what is dead, and a very rare type.

Many people, especially women, never experience boredom because they have never learned to work properly.

The existence of forgetting has never been proved: We only know that some things don't come to mind when we want them.

Partial knowledge is more triumphant than complete knowledge; it takes things to be simpler than they are, and so makes its theory more popular and convincing.

Here the ways of men divide. If you wish to strive for peace of soul and happiness, then believe; if you wish to be a disciple of truth, then inquire.