You saw his weakness, and he will never forgive you.
The gentlest man cannot live in peace if it does not please his wicked neighbor.
In a narrow circle the mind contracts. Man grows with his expanded needs.
The great happiness of life, I find, after all, to consist in the regular discharge of some mechanical duty.
Anyone taken as an individual is tolerably sensible and reasonable - as a member of a crowd, he at once becomes a blockhead.
It is through beauty that we arrive at freedom.