The old man, especially if he is in society in the privacy of his thoughts, though he may protest the opposite, never stops believing that, through some singular exception of the universal rule, he can in some unknown and inexplicable way still make an impression on women.

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

Since the world never faults a man who refuses to yield...it is generally recognized that weak men live in obedience to the world's will, while the strong obey only their own.

He who has the courage to laugh is almost as much a master of the world as he who is ready to die.

That is why all great men are modest: they consistently measure themselves not in comparison to other people but to the idea of perfection ever present in their minds, an ideal infinitely clearer and greater than any common people have, and they also realize how far they are from fulfilling their ideal.

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

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