I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.

A schoolteacher or professor cannot educate individuals, he educates only species.

He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.

I have never yet met anyone who did not think it was an agreeable sensation to cut tinfoil with scissors.

To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.

We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

Perhaps pure reason without heart would never have thought of God.