Do ask yourself why you, the individual, exist, and if you can get no other answer try for once to justify the meaning of your existence as it were a posteriori by setting before yourself an aim, a goal, a 'to this end', an exalted and noble 'to this end'.

All great men are play actors of their own ideal.

Sometimes in conversation the sound of our own voice distracts us and misleads us into making assertions that in no way express our true opinions.

Whether in conversation we generally agree or disagree with others is largely a matter of habit: the one tendency makes as much sense as the other.

What is not intelligible to me is not necessarily unintelligent

If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.

When we cannot stand certain people, we try to have suspicions about them.