In all climates, under all skies, man's happiness is always somewhere else.

The artisan or scientist or the follower of whatever discipline who has the habit of comparing himself not with other followers but with the discipline itself will have a lower opinion of himself, the more excellent he is.

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

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

It's interesting to observe that almost all truly worthy men have simple manners, and that simple manners are almost always taken as a sign of little worth

In all climates, under all skies, man's happiness is always somewhere else.

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.