One usually thinks people to be more dangerous than they are.

Everyone believes in his youth that the world really began with him, and that all merely exists for his sake.

Very few people love others for what they are; rather, they love what they lend them, their own selves, their own idea of them.

Words express neither objects nor ourselves.

Impotent hatred is the most horrible of all emotions; one should hate nobody whom one cannot destroy.

What a man does not understand, he does not possess.

A man does not mind being blamed for his faults, and being punished for them, and he patiently suffers much for them; but he becomes impatient if he is required to give them up.