The end of pain we take as happiness.

The commonplace expression that life is nothing but a play is verified above all in this: the world speaks absolutely consistently in one way and acts absolutely consistently in another.

Men are ready to suffer anything from others or from heaven itself, provided that, when it comes to words, they are untouched.

Everything since Homer has improved, except poetry.

Every man remembers his childhood as a kind of mythical age, just as every nation's childhood is its mythical age.

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

No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life, and gets less, than intolerance.