Everything that frees our spirit without giving us control of ourselves is ruinous.

People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not.

Sceptics are yet the most credulous.

The one who acts is always without conscience; nobody has a conscience but the contemplative person.

The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

He loves not who does not see the faults of the beloved as virtues.

The older we grow, the greater become the ordeals.