Everything since Homer has improved, except poetry.
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.
If content with himself and mankind, a man is never harsh or curt.
He who has the courage to laugh is almost as much a master of the world as he who is ready to die.
Ignorance is the greatest source of happiness.
Men do not so much hate an evil-doer, or evil itself, as they hate the man who calls evil by its real name.