Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom.
Within us there is someone who knows everything, wills everything, does everything better than we ourselves.
How could I fail to be a lone wolf, and an uncouth hermit, as I did not share one of its aims nor understand one of its pleasures?
Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can - that is their secret.
Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.