We find it easy to believe that praise is sincere: why should anyone lie in telling us the truth?
It takes a very deep-rooted opinion to survive unexpressed.
A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.
We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn't wish to be.
To love an idea is to love it a little more than one should.
To say of men that they are bad is to say they are worse than we think we are, or worse than the ideal man whose image we have built up on the basis of a certain few.