How did mankind ever come by the idea of liberty? What a grand thought it was!

They do not think, therefore they are not.

You can make a good living from soothsaying but not from truthsaying.

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.

Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.

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

He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery.