Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.

One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.

Be attentive, feel nothing in vain, measure and compare: this is the whole law of philosophy.

With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet.

Ask yourself always: how can this be done better?

I am grateful that I am not as judgmental as all those censorious, self-righteous people around me. In each of us there is a little of all of us.

The most successful tempters and thus the most dangerous are the deluded deluders.