Every word is a prejudice.

Here is a hero who did nothing but shake the tree as soon as the fruit was ripe. Does this seem to be too small a thing to you? Then take a good look at the tree he shook.

Concerning great things one should either be silent or speak loftily.

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives acts and experiences otherwise than we do?

Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.

Man is the cruelest animal. At tragedies, bullfights, and crucifixions he has so far felt best on earth; and when he invented hell for himself, behold, that was his very heaven.

In loneliness, the lonely one eats himself; in a crowd, the many eat him. Now choose.