The fruits of philosophy are the important thing, not the philosophy itself. When we ask the time, we don't want to know how watches are made.

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

A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectible and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.

Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all.

What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?

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.

Every condition of the soul has its own sign and expression...So you will see how hard it is to seem original without being so.