If the best company is that which we leave feeling most satisfied with ourselves, it follows that it is the company we leave most bored.

Men seldom act from a correct sense of what may be harmful or useful to them.

I find it awfully difficult to determine if the habit of talking about oneself at length runs contrary to the basic rules of propriety, or if instead the man exempt from this vice is rare.

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.

The end of pain we take as happiness.

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

Man is almost always as wicked as his needs require.