Men do not so much hate an evil-doer, or evil itself, as they hate the man who calls evil by its real name.

Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the world; since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces real hatred of mankind.

Children find everything in nothing; men find nothing in everything.

There's no greater sign of being a poor philosopher and wise man than wanting all of life to be wise and philosophical.

The surest way of concealing from others the boundaries of one s own knowledge is not to overstep them.

No one is so completely disenchanted with the world, or knows it so thoroughly, or is so utterly disgusted with it, that when it begins to smile upon him he does not become partially reconciled to it.

It's not our disadvantages or shortcomings that are ridiculous, but rather the studious way we try to hide them, and our desire to act as if they did not exist.