Just as, out of habit, one consults a run-down clock as though it were still going, so too one may look at the face of a beautiful woman as though he still loved her.

He who is plenteously provided for from within needs but little from without.

Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves.

If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.

Legislators and revolutionaries who promise both equality and liberty are visionaries and charlatans.

If you have a great work in your head, nothing else thrives near it; all other thoughts are repelled, and the pleasure of life itself is for the time lost.

When you lose interest in anything, you also lose the memory for it.